Beatriz Brenes’ work has been published by Barrelhouse and Michigan Quarterly Review and is forthcoming in IronHorse Magazine Spring 2026.

Her short story "How to Make Tamales After Lucía" was a semi-finalist for the 2023 Sewanee Review Fiction Contest. She's attended the Tin House Summer and Winter Workshop, Anaphora Arts, Macondo Writers Workshop and was a semi-finalist for the Key West Literary Seminar Emerging Writer Award.

She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Pacific University and is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Cincinnati.

*The image pictured here, is an AI representation of Bea’s short story “Ripples.”