Tanya Rey is a queer Cuban-American writer who was born and raised in Miami. Her writing has appeared in Guernica, Granta, The Sun, Roads & Kingdoms, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, The Georgia Review, and Catapult, among others. She holds an M.F.A. in fiction from New York University and has received fellowships from The Georgia Review, Rona Jaffe Foundation, San Francisco Writers Grotto, MacDowell, Hedgebrook, UCross, Blue Mountain Center, I-Park, and others. Her writing was shortlisted for the 2020 Disquiet Literary Prize and the Granum Foundation Prize in 2021 and 2023.
At MacDowell in 2020, Rey worked on her debut novel, completing a third draft of the book and also started writing a new short story. During her 2025 residency, she continued edits for the novel which has been selected as a semi-finalist for the James Jones First Novel Fellowship and second place winner of the First Pages Prize; excerpts have been published in Guernica and The Georgia Review.
Portrait by Matty-Lynn Barnes
