A Russian-Armenian émigré, Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry published fifty stories, essays, and poetry. Her work appeared/is forthcoming in Electric Literature, Indiana Review, The Southern Review, Gulf Coast, TriQuarterly, Prairie Schooner, Nimrod, Arts & Letters, Confrontation, and elsewhere. Her short fiction was selected as a finalist for multiple awards, including eight Pushcart nominations and the 2020 Indiana Review Fiction Prize. Gorcheva-Newberry is the winner of the 2013 Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction and the 2015 Tennessee Williams scholarship from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. Her first collection of stories, What Isn’t Remembered, is the winner of the 2020 Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction and will be published in the fall of 2021. Her debut novel, The Orchard, is forthcoming from Ballantine/Random in the spring of 2022.
