About
Lara Waas is a fiction writer and translator based in New York City. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University, where she was nominated for the Henfield Prize. Her work has appeared in Narrative, LIT, Thin Air, and elsewhere. She is an assistant fiction editor at Narrative and an incoming adjunct assistant professor of creative writing at Columbia University.
Before moving to New York, Lara earned her BA in Comparative Literature from the University of Munich in Germany, where she later taught undergraduate classes and worked as a research fellow. She also spent a few months in Guatemala teaching English, enjoys traveling, and knows the names of all the bodega cats in her neighborhood—Mittens, Ashtray, and Shadow, among others.
For a full record of her publications, teaching, and research, see her complete CV here.