MORE PUBLICATIONS
Work in Anthologies
“I like to be in America,” in Boundless: Twenty Voices Celebrating Multicultural and Multiracial Identities, Inkyard, 2023
6-word essay in Our Hidden Conversations: What Americans Really Think About Race and Identity, Edited by Michele Norris, Simon & Schuster, 2024
“Long Live the Fatherless Children,” in We Are Meant to Rise: Voices for Justice from Minneapolis to the World, U of MN Press, 2021
“What Didn’t Happen,” in Brief Encounters: A Collection of Contemporary Nonfiction, WW Norton, 2014
“Fishing,” in Sky Blue Water: Great Stories for Young Readers, University of Minnesota Press, 2018
“The Beginning of the World,” in Oh Baby: True Stories About Conception, Adoption, Surrogacy, Pregnancy, Labor, and Love, InFact Books (Creative Nonfiction Magazine), 2015
“Confession,” in Love and Profanity: True, Tortured, Wild, Hilarious, and Intense Tales of Teenage Life, Capstone Press, 2016
“None Taken,” in The Beiging of America: Personal Narratives about Being Mixed Race in the 21st Century, Edited by Cathy J. Schlund-Vials, Sean Frederick Forbes, Tara Betts, 2Leaf Press, 2017
Essays
LitHub, “Anika Fajardo on Connecting With Her Colombian Heritage Through Magical Realism,” 2026
Travel + Leisure, “Thicker Than Water,” 2023
Star Tribune, “A Good Night,” Holiday essay, 2021
Midway Journal, “Muscle Memory,” 1st place, -1000 Below Contest, 2021
Brevity, “Finishing a Memoir” (craft essay), 2020
UMP Blog, Magical Realism for Non-Believers, 2019
Chautauqua, “English as a Second Language,” 2017
The Scene As I Imagined It, Red Bird Chapbooks, (Purchase the chapbook), 2016
apt: a literary magazine, “Something Recognizable,” 2015
apt: a literary magazine, “On Ten Years of apt,” 2015
Hippocampus Magazine, “The Chase,” 2013
Literary Mama, “Frozen Concentrate,” 2013
Monkeybicycle, “What goes in a package to my father in Colombia,” 2013
McSweeney's Internet Tendency, “The Ten Commandments of Pointless Office Meetings,” 2012
Hippocampus Magazine, “Echo of a Fall” (Pushcart nomination), 2011
Hippocampus Magazine, “Playing Poohstocks,” 2011
Dos Passos Review, “What Didn't Happen,” 2011
Midway Journal, “The Falls,” 2010
Colere: A Journal of Cultural Exploration, “Better Wall Than a Window,” 2010
The Talking Stick, “Families Have a Mom and a Dad,” (second place for creative nonfiction), 2009
Frostwriting, “Impressionist,” 2009
apt: a literary journal, “Boys at Play,” 2008