Catalina Bartlett’s fiction has appeared in Aster(ix) Journal, Boston Review, The Fiction Issue: An Aster(ix) Anthology, and riverSedge: A Journal of Art and Literature, and twice has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She was awarded a 2026 Money for Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund grant and was a 2025 finalist in poetry as well. Her collection, Comadres: Stories, received an Honorable Mention for the Miami Book Fair’s Emerging Writer Fellowship. She is the recipient of a New Mexico Writers Grant, a Ledig House Fellowship, and a Prairie Center for the Arts residency.
Catalina currently is at work on Comadres: Stories, a novel entitled When Fabiola Came Home, and My Mother, the Plagiarist: Poems and Essays. These works draw from her matrilineal family history and early life along the southern Colorado-northern New Mexico corridor. She lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
