Kristina Ten

Kristina Ten’s stories appear in Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, We’re Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction, Lightspeed, Nightmare, and elsewhere. She is the winner of the McSweeney‘s Stephen Dixon Award for Short Fiction, and a graduate of Clarion West Writers Workshop and the University of Colorado Boulder’s MFA program in Creative Writing. Born in Moscow, Ten has lived most of her life in the U.S., in the company of mischievous dogs, melodramatic plants, and bookshelves full of fairy tales. Find her at kristinaten.com.