Pedro Ponce
Fiction
Canton, NY
Pedro Ponce is the author of The Devil and the Dairy Princess (Indiana University Press, 2021) winner of the Don Belton Fiction Prize and a finalist for the 2021 Big Other Book Award for Fiction. He is also the author of Stories After Goya, Alien Autopsy, and Superstitions of Apartment Life, which was selected by Aimee Bender as winner of Burnside Review’s fiction chapbook competition. His short stories and flash fiction have appeared in BOMB, Ploughshares, Copper Nickel, Witness, and other journals. His work has also been featured in anthologies such as The Best Small Fictions 2019 and New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction. His work has been recognized with a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, and with residencies at Ragdale, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. He teaches writing and literary studies at St. Lawrence University.