Rogelio Juarez is a Mexican-American writer from Phoenix. His fiction has appeared in American Short Fiction, and J Journal: New Writing on Justice and Zócalo Public Square. His work has been supported by Tin House and the Voices of Our Nation Arts Foundation. He holds a M.F.A. in fiction from Cornell University.
At MacDowell, Juarez worked on his debut short story collection, The State of My Heart. The collection is a sprawling microcosm of the Southwest – of documenting and upending the liminal and brutal truths of living between cultures, empires, systems, and histories.
