Christopher Louis Romaguera is a Cuban-American writer born in Hialeah, Florida and raised in Miami, Florida. He graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in English and a Bachelor’s Degree in Philosophy while attending Florida International University. He has a Masters of Fine Arts from the University of New Orleans.

Romaguera lived in Oakland, California and New Orleans, LA, the latter of which he has lived for the majority of his time since 2011. His publications include The Daily Beast, Curbed National, PANK Magazine, New Orleans Review, Santa Fe Writers Project, Louisiana Literature, GrubWrites, Peauxdunque Review.

Romaguera has worked as a Staff Writer for French Quarter Journal and Where Y’at Magazine. He has been a beat reporter for NOLA Defender, writing stories about protests, the activist movement, and stories involving Latinx peoples within New Orleans. He covered the New Orleans Pelicans for ESPN and TrueHoop affiliate Bourbon Street Shots for multiple seasons as well.

Romaguera is a monthly columnist for Ploughshares. He is currently the Fiction Editor at The New Southern Fugitives and the Editorial Intern at Electric Literature.