Beverly Parayno grew up in San Jose, California, and earned an MA from University College Cork in Ireland and an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts, where she received a Lynda Hull scholarship. She is the author of the short story collection Wildflowers (PAWA, 2023), winner of the 2024 National Indie Excellence Award for Asian American & Pacific Islander Fiction. She lives in the Sierra Nevada foothills and cofacilitates the Cameron Park Library Writers Workshop.
WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:
- Housecleaning, a short story, in Stories of the Week: 2010–2011