Daniel Barrios (he/él)

daniel barrios (he/him/él) is a Dominican/Puerto Rican writer and educator from Staten Island, New York. His fiction is published in Pleiades Magazine, Action-Spectacle, & The Brooklyn Review. He holds an MFA in Fiction Writing from Southern New Hampshire University where he received a residency scholarship. He is the winner of The Brooklyn Review's 2023 Fiction Contest: This Time It's Personal! daniel has been awarded fellowships/residencies through the PERIPLUS collective (2024), Under the Volcano in Tepoztlán, Mexico, Sundress Academy for the Arts in Knoxville, Tennessee, and Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing. barrios writes about migration, memory, and the small ways people hold themselves together.