Literary Writing

Salinas Baker holds an MFA in Creative Writing from St. Joseph’s University in Brooklyn, where she teaches undergraduate English. Her fiction has appeared in Big Muddy, The Coachella Review, and Solstice Literary Magazine. She has been a finalist for the 2022 Masters Review Summer Short Story Prize, the 2022 Pinch Literary Awards, Landing Zone Magazine’s 2022 Fiction Contest and The Breakwater Review’s 2021 Fiction Contest. She is currently finishing two novels.

The Distant Daughter (The Masters Review Summer 2022 Short Story Contest, Third Place)

The Sleeping Husband (The Pinch Journal’s Literary Awards Fiction Finalist)

The Family Business (Big Muddy)

Our Beauty, Our Virtue (Landing Zone Magazine)

Desserts on a Tray (Solstice Literary Magazine)

Not a Chance (The Coachella Review)

Dearly Domesticated (The Breakwater Review 2021 Fiction Contest Finalist)

Memoir: Doing Things That Make No Sense (Graceless)