Ingrid Rojas Contreras is a Colombian writer best known for her 2022 memoir The Man Who Could Move Clouds: A Memoir, which was a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize for Memoir and the National Book Award for Nonfiction, as well as the National Book Critics Circle Award. She also won a Medal in Nonfiction from the California Book Awards for that work and was long-listed for a Carnegie Medal in Excellence in Nonfiction. Her first novel, Fruit of the Drunken Tree, won the California Book Award. Her essays and short stories have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, New York Magazine, and The Paris Review, among others. Rojas was born and raised in Bogotá, Colombia, and immigrated to the United States at the age of 14. She teaches fiction at the University of San Francisco and is a visiting professor at Saint Mary's College of California.
Ingrid Rojas Contreras adalah penulis asal Kolombia yang dikenal lewat memoarnya tahun 2022, The Man Who Could Move Clouds: A Memoir. Buku ini menjadi finalis Pulitzer Prize untuk kategori Memoir, National Book Award untuk Nonfiksi, dan National Book Critics Circle Award. Ia juga meraih Medali Nonfiksi dari California Book Awards untuk karya tersebut, serta masuk daftar panjang Carnegie Medal in Excellence in Nonfiction. Novel pertamanya, Fruit of the Drunken Tree, memenangkan California Book Award. Esai dan cerita pendeknya telah terbit di The New York Times Magazine, New York Magazine, dan The Paris Review, di antara publikasi lainnya. Rojas lahir dan besar di Bogotá, Kolombia, lalu pindah ke Amerika Serikat pada usia 14 tahun. Ia mengajar fiksi di University of San Francisco dan menjadi profesor tamu di Saint Mary’s College of California.
