Carrie Grinstead

Carrie Grinstead is a fiction writer based in Los Angeles who earned her MFA from New Mexico State University in 2010. Her short stories have appeared in Tin House, The Masters Review Anthology, and Joyland. Her debut short story collection, I Have Her Memories Now, won the 2022 Howling Bird Press Fiction Prize. The six stories deal with misguided hope and frustrated desire. Reviewers, including Robert Boswell, have praised her precise prose and endings.