Rowena Alegría
Denver, CO
Fiction
Rowena Alegría is Chief Storyteller for the City & County of Denver, founder and director of the Denver Office of Storytelling, a citywide storytelling and cultural preservation project. She was the 2021 Ricardo Salinas Scholar in Fiction at Aspen Words. Her writing has also received the generous support of entities including Storyknife, Writing by Writers, Ragdale and Vermont Studio Center. She earned an MFA in Fiction from the Institute of American Indian Arts and is a member of Sandra Cisneros' Macondo Writers Workshop. 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 adopted and raised in Denver.