Annell López

Annell López is a Dominican immigrant. She is the winner of the Louise Meriwether First Book Prize and the author of the short story collection I’ll Give You a Reason from the Feminist Press. A Peter Taylor Fellow at the Kenyon Review Writers Workshops, her work has also received support from Tin House and has appeared in Guernica, American Short Fiction, Michigan Quarterly Review, Brooklyn Rail, and elsewhere. López received her MFA from the University of New Orleans. She is an assistant fiction editor for the New Orleans Review and is working on a novel.

Interviews

Annell López

Sep 14, 2026

Novel as Relay Race: A Conversation with María Elena Morán

I often thought of the novel as a relay race. A character tells their version of events, and the reader may begin to sympathize with them or judge them. Then another voice takes over and complicates everything—confirming, challenging, or completely…
Interviews

Annell López

Feb 17, 2026

“Full Throttle from the First Sentence:” A Conversation with Ivonne Lamazares

“Many of us go through similar experiences, where the foundations of our lives and family dynamics collapse. These situations force us to come face to face with the instability of self-narratives, family structures, and personal identities. I’m enormously curious about…

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Annell López

Novel as Relay Race: A Conversation with María Elena Morán

“Full Throttle from the First Sentence:” A Conversation with Ivonne Lamazares