Christopher Gonzalez is the author of the story collection I’m Not Hungry But I Could Eat, published by the Santa Fe Writers Project in 2021. Publishers Weekly praised his debut’s “brilliantly crafted stories about food and relationships,” throughout which he “works multiple registers, creating rich, compressed portraits of his characters.” Tyrese L. Coleman, author of the memoir How to Sit, called the collection “so important as it represents queer, specifically bi, yearning from a male perspective without the trappings of toxic masculinity and shows the depth and breadth of human emotions and the ways in which love, loneliness, and longing are complicated by self doubt.” Gonzalez has published work in The Nation, Catapult, The Millions, Lunch Ticket, and elsewhere. His work has also been anthologized in Boricua en la Luna: An Anthology of Puerto Rican Voices, The Best Small Fictions 2019, Forward: 21st Century Flash Fiction, The Wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Fictions of 2020, and Best Microfiction 2021. The New York Foundation for the Arts awarded Gonzalez a 2021 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in fiction. He currently serves as a fiction editor for Barrelhouse magazine.
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