Leo Ríos is a fiction writer. He studied English, Spanish, and Chicanx studies at UCLA and received an M.F.A. from Cornell University. His work appears or is forthcoming in The Arkansas International, The Georgia Review, The Rumpus, The Masters Review, Joyland Magazine, and The Common.
At MacDowell, Ríos finished writing his first book, a novel-in-stories, tentatively titled Carta Blanca. The last chapter needed to complete Carta Blanca will be published as a short story in The Common in Fall 2023. He also began working on a second book, a collection of prose poems.
