Theresa Hottel

Born in Taipei and raised in southern Oklahoma, Theresa Hottel writes about ghosts, women, and landscape. Her fiction appears in No Tokens Journal, SmokeLong Quarterly, and Vol 1. Brooklyn, as well as the anthology Tiny Nightmares (Catapult Books, 2020). She has received support from Art Omi: Writers, Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference, and Homestead National Monument of America, among other organizations, and she was awarded a 2018 Honorable Mention from the Otherwise Fellowship, for speculative narratives that explore and expand understandings of gender. She edited the documentary film Truth Be Told, a collaboration with Emmy award-winning director Nneka Onuorah, which premiered at Outfest LA and won the 2023 Social Impact Award.

Theresa holds a BA from Oklahoma City University and an MFA from Columbia University. After almost a decade in New York, she currently lives in Barcelona.