Cerissa DiValentino is an MFA candidate in fiction at Boston University, where she has received the Helen Deutsch Fellowship and the Florence Engel Randall Fiction Award. She is also a Vermont Studio Center Fellow, Leslie Epstein Global Fellow, and was a workshop resident at the Cornell Image Text Residency. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Joyland, Write or Die, LIT Magazine, and Expat Press.

She is working on a novel.