Ingrid Rojas Contreras

Instructor & Writer
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Ingrid Rojas Contreras is the author of Fruit of the Drunken Tree (Doubleday, 2018) a silver medal winner in First Fiction from the California Book Awards, and a New York Times editor's choice. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, The Cut, The Believer, and elsewhere. A new work of nonfiction, a family memoir about her grandfather, a curandero from Colombia who it was said had the power to move clouds, is coming from Doubleday in 2022. 

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Stories

Cover Photo: This illustration is made up of six blue panels (three panels wide and two panels tall). In the top center panel, a figure is shown diving into the water, spread open like a book, across the bottom three panels.
The Working Metaphors of Novel Writing

Ingrid Rojas Conteras speaks to Naima Coster, Alexandra Kleeman, R. O. Kwon, Laura van den Berg, and Bryan Washington about the language they use to describe writing novels.

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Ingrid Rojas Contreras
Dec 14, 2021
Don’t Write Alone | Notes On Craft
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Books Are Stronger When Written in Community

We write alone, but stories are meant to be shared.

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Ingrid Rojas Contreras
Jun 30, 2021
Don’t Write Alone | Notes From Class
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Where Ingrid Rojas Contreras Writes

The three Polaroids that hang by my desk are from different parts of the story, but it helps to have them nearby.

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Ingrid Rojas Contreras
Apr 15, 2021
Don’t Write Alone | Where We Write