kathryn

campo

Bowen

Kathryn Campo Bowen is a Salvadoran American writer born and raised in Miami, Florida. Her short stories are featured in The Florida Review, Sonora Review, Salt Hill, and the forthcoming Florida Anthology. Winner of the Sonora Review Fiction Contest and finalist for the Perkoff Prize, the Story Foundation Prize, and the Sewanee Review Fiction Contest, she holds graduate degrees from UC Berkeley and UC Irvine, where she was a Schaeffer Fellow.

Living in Los Angeles, she is at work on a novel.

fiction

OWLS, The Florida Review
Pamplona, Sonora Review and the Florida Anthology (forthcoming)
There is a man named Rómulo Prudencio Reyes and the truth is, Salt Hill

awards and recognitions

Finalist, Missouri Review Perkoff Prize, 2025
Semi-finalist, American Short Fiction Halifax Ranch Prize, 2025
Pushcart Prize Nomination, The Florida Review, 2024
Winner, Sonora Review Fiction Contest, judged by Maggie Shipstead, 2023
Latine Excellence and Achievement Award, UC Irvine, 2023
Finalist, Third Annual Story Foundation Prize, 2022
PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize Nomination, Salt Hill, 2022
Finalist, Sewanee Review Fiction Contest, judged by Brandon Taylor, 2021

fellowships, residencies,
and workshops

Vermont Studio Center, VSC Fellowship, June 2026
Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, August 2025
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA), July 2025
Tin House Autumn Workshop, November 2024
The Community of Writers, UC Irvine Scholarship, July 2024
International Center for Writing and Translation, Schaefer Fellowship, 2023

press

Writing Across Borders, UC Irvine School of Humanities
Author Kathryn Campo Bowen x Editor Erica Frederick, Salt Hill

say hi

kathryncampobowen [at] gmail