Rowena Alegría is Chief Storyteller for the City & County of Denver, founder and director of the Denver Office of Storytelling and the citywide storytelling and cultural preservation project I Am Denver. She was the 2021 Ricardo Salinas Scholar in Fiction at Aspen Words and has won numerous writing fellowships and residencies. She is a member of Sandra Cisneros' Macondo Writers Workshop. Her work has appeared in publications including The Rumpus, the Mississippi Review and the Hennepin Review. A filmmaker, career journalist, communications executive and speech writer, she is writing a novel that plays with form and the history of the Southwest. She was born and raised in Denver.

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