Paula Molina Acosta is a Colombian-American writer originally from the Maryland side of the DMV. Her science fiction and graphic memoir are interested in queer pasts, Latinx futures, and the interconnectedness of all things.
Molina Acosta won the 2020 OutWrite Chapbook Competition in Fiction, and has received support from the Sundress Academy for the Arts. and the Anderson Center.
She earned her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, where she teaches undergraduate creative writing and literature.
PUBLICATIONS
GRAPHIC MEMOIR
“The Same in Common” — Honey Literary, Issue 5 — February 2023
FICTION
“Rootbound” — Celebrating 10 Years of OutWrite — August 2021
Excerpt from “The Far Side Mines” — Metro Weekly — July 2020
When We’re Done Here: Stories at the Edge of the World — chapbook from Neon Hemlock Press — August 2020
Includes two short stories: “Grounded” and “The Far Side Mines”
Winner of the 2020 OutWrite Chapbook Competition in Fiction, selected by Rivers Solomon
