Dr. Pedro Ponce

Pedro Ponce is the author of The Devil and the Dairy Princess, winner of the Don Belton Fiction Prize, a finalist for the 2021 Big Other Book Award for Fiction, and a finalist for the 2025 International Book Award for short fiction. His stories have been published in BOMB Magazine, Ploughshares, Witness, and Copper Nickel, as well as in the anthologies The Best Small Fictions 2019 and New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction. His awards include a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and artist residencies at Ragdale and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. He is the 2024 winner of The Tom La Farge Award for Innovative Writing, Teaching and Publishing.