Cristina Herrera Mezgravis is a writer and educator from Valencia, Venezuela. She graduated from Stanford University with awards in both fiction and nonfiction. She worked in tech and in college prep in the Bay Area and in Lima, Peru. She currently lives in Austin, Texas with her husband and their tabby cat, Lima. As a second-year MFA candidate at the Michener Center for Writers, Cristina is working on a coming-of-age novel about Venezuelan migrants.