Paula Molina Acosta

Paula Molina Acosta (she/they/ella) is a Colombian-American writer and educator from Maryland. She graduated magna cum laude from the University of Maryland with a BA in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and a minor in Creative Writing. In 2025 she completed her MFA in Fiction at the University of Minnesota, where they also taught literature and creative writing as an associate faculty member in the English Department. She previously worked at the National Partnership for Women & Families and has interned in a variety of nonprofit and political offices.

Their speculative fiction chapbook, When We’re Done Here, won the 2020 OutWrite Chapbook Competition in Fiction, judged by Rivers Solomon, and was published by Neon Hemlock Press. Paula’s work has been published in Honey Literary, Metro Weekly, and the Celebrating Ten Years of OutWrite anniversary journal, and is forthcoming from Analog Science Fiction and Fact.

Paula lives in South Minneapolis, where they tend their local community garden, swim in the lakes, and read.