A.J. Rodriguez
Instructor
About A.J.
A.J. Rodriguez is a Chicano writer born and raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He is a graduate of Cornell University and the University of Oregon’s MFA program. His work has been awarded the Granum Foundation Prize and received support from MacDowell, Yaddo, the Kerouac Project, the Hawthornden Foundation, and the Elizabeth George Foundation. His stories have won CRAFT’s Flash Fiction Contest, the Crazyhorse Fiction Prize, second place in Salamander’s Fiction Contest, and the Kinder/Crump Award for Short Fiction from Pleiades. His fiction also appears in New England Review, Passages North, The Common, and elsewhere. He is represented by Alexa Stark at Writers House.Interests
- Applying for Awards and Fellowships
- Cultural Consulting
- Essay
- Memoir
- Non-Fiction
- Novel
- Preparing the MFA Application
- Publishing & Promotion
- Short Fiction