Ingrid Rojas Contreras
2023 Author
Ingrid Rojas Contreras was born and raised in Bogotá, Colombia. Her memoir, The Man Who Could Move Clouds, was a Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, and National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist. Rojas Contreras interweaves family stories, resurrects Colombian history, and writes her way through the incomprehensible and into her inheritance. The book won a Medal in Nonfiction from the California Book Awards. It was named a “Best Book of the Year” by TIME, People, NPR, Vanity Fair, and Boston Globe, among others. Her first novel, Fruit of the Drunken Tree, was the silver medal winner in First Fiction from the California Book Awards, and a New York Times editor’s choice. Her work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, The Cut, Zyzzyva, and is forthcoming from Harper’s. Rojas Contreras has received numerous awards and fellowships from Bread Loaf Writers Conference, VONA, Hedgebrook, The Camargo Foundation, and the National Association of Latino Arts and Culture. She is a Visiting Writer at Saint Mary’s College.
