Chantel Acevedo

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Chantel Acevedo’s novels include Love and Ghost Letters (St. Martin's Press), which won the Latino International Book Award and was a finalist for the Connecticut Book of the Year, Song of the Red Cloak, a historical novel for young adults, A Falling Star (Carolina Wren Press), winner of the Doris Bakwin Award, and National Bronze Medal IPPY Award, and The Distant Marvels, (Europa Editions).

Her fiction and poetry have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and have appeared in Prairie Schooner, American Poetry Review, North American Review, and Chattahoochee Review, among others.

Acevedo is currently an Associate Professor of English in the MFA Program of the University of Miami.

Prize anthology mentions

Best American Short Stories 2015*

Best American Short Stories 2016*

Pushcart (Fiction) 2016*

* indicates notable/special mention

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