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Our Mentors

Katrina Carrasco
Katrina Carrasco is not mentoring this year, but has mentored Adult
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Katrina Carrasco
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Katrina Carrasco’s debut novel, THE BEST BAD THINGS, is forthcoming in November 2018 from MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Katrina holds an M.F.A. in fiction, and her short stories have appeared in Witness, Post Road, Quaint, and other journals. Her nonfiction can be found at Autostraddle. She has been awarded residencies at Yaddo, Blue Mountain Center, I-Park, Jentel, and Willapa Bay AiR, and received a 2017 Grants for Artist Projects award from Artist Trust. She lives in Seattle with her two dogs.

Favorite Books

How to Be Both by Ali Smith
Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
Hild by Nicola Griffith
McGlue by Ottessa Moshfegh
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

Years Mentored
2017, 2018
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