Email: dapalacio@uncg.edu
Office: MHRA 3312
Education
MFA in Creative Writing (Fiction), The Ohio State University
BA in English, College of the Holy Cross
Research Interests
Fiction, exile literature, religious & mystical narratives, poetry
Selected Publications
The Mortifications (novel), Tim Duggan Books, 2016
How to Shake the Other Man (novella), Nouvella Books, 2013
“Home to Our Blood” (short story), in Let’s Hear Their Voices: Cuban American Writers of the
Second-Generation, SUNY Press, 2019
“Sugarcane” (short story), in The O. Henry Prize Stories 2013, Anchor Books, 2013
Awards & Honors
Artist-in-Residence, Ragdale, 2021
Distinguished Story of 2018, Best American Short Stories 2019
Distinguished Story of 2016, Best American Short Stories 2017
Selection, The New York Times Notable Books, The Mortifications, 2016
Award, O. Henry Prize, for the story “Sugarcane” from The Kenyon Review, 2013