About Me

Brenna Gomez is the recipient of a 2017 Hedgebrook residency. Her fiction has appeared in Prairie Schooner, StoryQuarterly,Year's Best Weird Fiction Volume 5, and The Dark Magazine. She interviewed Roxane Gay for Blue Mesa Review, and her interview with author Sharon Oard Warner can be found in The Rumpus. Brenna received her MFA from the University of New Mexico, where she was the Editor-in-Chief of Blue Mesa Review and the 2015 recipient of the Hispanic Writer Award for the UNM Summer Writers’ Conference in Santa Fe. Brenna is a reader for Electric Lit's Recommended Reading and read submissions for the 2017 Kore Press memoir contest. She currently teaches composition at UNM and hosts author events at Bookworks Albuquerque.