Cristina Henríquez

Born in Delaware to an American mother and a Panamanian father, Henríquez is a graduate of Northwestern University and the prestigious Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She is the author of two novels—2009’s The World in Half and 2014’s The Book of Unknown Americans—and one collection of short stories, 2006’s Come Together, Fall Apart. Henríquez has written nonfiction for The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, and The Wall Street Journal, among other publications. She lives in Illinois.