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A.J. Rodriguez

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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 received the Granum Foundation Prize and been supported by MacDowell, Yaddo, the Kerouac Project, the Hawthornden Foundation, and the Elizabeth George Foundation. His stories have won CRAFT’s Flash Fiction Contest, the Swamp Pink Fiction Prize, second place in Salamander’s Fiction Contest, and the Kinder/Crump Award for Short Fiction from Pleiades. His fiction also appears in Guernica, The Common, New England Review, and elsewhere. He has taught creative writing at the University of Oregon, Johnson & Wales University, and St. Albans School. A.J. 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

A.J.'s Works

  • Inocentes

    Short story published in the October 2025 Issue of Guernica; Finalist for the Adroit Journal Editor’s Prize in Fiction; Longlisted for the Disquiet Prize

    Type: Other

  • Bendiciones

    Shorty story Published in Issue 102 of Crazyhorse (now swamp pink); Winner of the Crazyhorse (now swamp pink) Fiction Prize; Finalist for the Indiana Review Fiction Prize; Shortlisted for the Masters Review Short Story Award for New Writers

    Type: Other

  • Papel Picado

    Short story published in Issue 27 of The Common

    Type: Other

  • De Nuevo

    Flash fiction published in CRAFT; Winner of CRAFT's Flash Fiction Contest

    Type: Other

  • Callejeros

    Shorty story Published in Issue 30 of New Ohio Review; Finalist in New Ohio Review's Fiction Contest; Finalist for the Robert Day Award for Fiction

    Type: Other

  • Americanos

    Short story Published in Issue 57 of Salamander; Second Place Winner of Salamander's Fiction Contest

    Type: Other

  • Lenguaje

    Short story Published in Issue 44 of Passages North

    Type: Other