Alysia Gonzales

is a writer born and raised in San Francisco. She holds a B.A. in Film Critical Studies from the University of Southern California, and an M.F.A. in Fiction from San Francisco State University. 

Her work has been published in The Ana, Seventh Wave Magazine, The Acentos Review, and The Minnesota Review. Her flash fiction has been longlisted for the Fractured Lit Flash Fiction Prize. Her work has also been supported by the San Francisco Writers Grotto's Rooted & Written Conference, the Rhinebeck Residency, the Napa Valley Writer’s Conference, and the Community of Writers Workshop.

As a Chicana, Filipina, Hispanic writer, Alysia’s work grapples with the liminal spaces within race, identity, family, class, the climate, ancestry, and more. When she is not writing or reading, she can be found hiking, drinking coffee, watching film or TV, cooking or baking, or playing with her dog, Kiwi.

She is currently working on a linked short story collection about the expansive and limited ways we identify ourselves, and a novel about a family of brujas in a small mountain town.