Non-fiction
Minneapolis, MN
July, 2023, 2 weeks
Ciara Alfaro identifies as a writer, romantic, and descendant of magicians from Lubbock, Texas. A spring graduate of the University of Minnesota’s Creative Writing MFA program, Ciara is participating in the Anderson residency as a UMN Gesell Writing Fellow. In her work, she pulls apart the threads of her family’s ghosts, their Mexican American lore, and her own dogged fantasies about romance, girlhood, violence, desire, and coming of age.