José Pablo Iriarte

José Pablo Iriarte is a Cuban American author of children's fiction, science fiction, and fantasy, best known for the Nebula Award and James Tiptree Award nominated novelette "The Substance of My Lives, the Accidents of Our Births".

Personal life Iriarte is Cuban American and Spanish is their first language, having learned English right after starting kindergarten. The first paying magazine rejection Iriarte received was at 13. Iriarte's work takes inspiration from the young adult novelist A. S. King and the short story writers Sam J. Miller, Sarah Pinsker, Caroline M. Yoachim, Sandra McDonald, Ken Liu, and Elizabeth Bear. It was a finalist for a Nebula Award for Best Short Story in the category Fantasy in 2018 and on the longlist for the James Tiptree Award in 2018. It was received favorably by critics, earning a triple star review, and was on Tangent Onlines Recommended Reading List in 2018.

Iriarte's short story "Yuca and Dominoe", originally published by Strange Horizons in 2013, has also been translated into Spanish and published in the anthology Órbita Juracán: Cuentos de Ciencia Ficción in 2016 as "Yuca y Dominos."

Iriarte's 2016 short story "The Vampire's Stepdaughter" was published in the September/August issue of Fantastic Stories of the Imagination. It was on Tangent Online 's Recommended Reading List in 2016 and received a starred review,

Some of Iriarte's work is published under the name José Iriarte.