Brenna Gomez is a bisexual Chicana writer based in the Pacific Northwest. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in: Prairie Schooner, StoryQuarterly, Year's Best Weird Fiction Volume 5, Complete Sentence, Joyland and more. Brenna is the recipient of a Hedgebrook residency and is a 2017/2020 McCormack Writing Center alumna. She was an inaugural McCormack Writing Center Reading Fellow (23-24). Her story “Eileen” was a 2021 Best of the Net nominee.
Brenna received her MFA from the University of New Mexico. She is working on a speculative story collection set in Albuquerque, New Mexico and a coming-of-age novel about family secrets, curses, and betrayals set in rural Southern Colorado.