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 the University of Oregon’s MFA program and the recipient of fellowships from MacDowell and Yaddo. 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, judged by Jonathan Escoffery. His fiction also appears in New England Review, Passages North, The Common, and elsewhere. He is represented by Alexa Stark at Writers House and the forty-third annual Writer-in-Residence at St. Albans School in Washington, D.C.Interests
- Applying for Awards and Fellowships
- Cultural Consulting
- Essay
- Memoir
- Non-Fiction
- Novel
- Preparing the MFA Application
- Publishing & Promotion
- Short Fiction
