Ivelisse Rodriguez’s debut short story collection Love War Stories was a 2019 PEN/Faulkner finalist and a 2018 Foreword Reviews INDIES finalist. It was noted as a must read or best book of the year in over thirty publications, including O magazine, Women’s Health, Good Housekeeping, Cosmopolitan, and more. She is a 2022 Letras Boricuas fellow and a Tanne Foundation award winner. She earned an M.F.A. in creative writing from Emerson College and a Ph.D. in English-creative writing from the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is an assistant professor and the Mary Rogers Field and Marion Field-McKenna Distinguished University Professor of Creative Writing at DePauw University.