Kristina Ten

Kristina Ten is the author of Tell Me Yours, I’ll Tell You Mine (Stillhouse Press, 2025). Her stories appear in McSweeney’s, Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, We’re Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction, Gulf Coast, Passages North, and elsewhere. She has won the McSweeney’s Stephen Dixon Award for Short Fiction, the Subjective Chaos Kind of Award, and the F(r)iction Writing Contest, and has been a finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award, the Locus Award, and the WSFA Small Press Award. Ten is a graduate of Clarion West Writers Workshop and the University of Colorado Boulder’s MFA program in fiction, and has received fellowships from the Ragdale Foundation and the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing. She lives in the company of mischievous dogs, melodramatic plants, and bookshelves full of fairy tales.