KATRINA CARRASCO

​

​

Katrina Carrasco writes novels, short stories, and essays. Her second novel, ROUGH TRADE (MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux), was published in April 2024. ROUGH TRADE won the Washington State Book Award and a Lambda Literary Award, and was an Edgar Awards Best Novel nominee. Her debut novel, THE BEST BAD THINGS (MCD/FSG), was a finalist in the Lambda Literary Awards and Washington State Book Awards, and won the Shamus Award for Best First P.I. Novel. Her essays and short stories have appeared in publications and on websites including CRIME INK: ICONIC, Witness Magazine, Post Road Magazine, and Literary Hub. She has received support from the Corporation of Yaddo, Jentel Arts, I-Park Foundation, Blue Mountain Center, Willapa Bay AiR, Mineral School, Lighthouse Works, the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Storyknife Writers Retreat, Artist Trust, the Barbara G. Peters Fellowship, and the Whiting Foundation. She is a PhD candidate at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, and is working on a new novel.

​

​

​