Catalina Acebal-Acevedo is a Puerto Rican writer. Born in San Juan and raised in Miami, she is drawn to coming-of-age stories, speculative fiction, dark comedy, and romance. Her work centers on flawed young women, the weight of identity, and longing.

Beyond prose fiction, she writes poetry, personal essays, criticism, and music. Her influences include Toni Morrison, Elena Ferrante, Joan Didion, Sylvia Plath, and Stevie Nicks.

Catalina holds a B.A. in Creative Writing and Spanish and an M.A. in Literary Editing and Publishing from the University of Southern California, where she co-founded the USC Literary Society. She has worked in film and television development at Legendary, Hello Sunshine, Amazon MGM Studios, and WEBTOON. Her writing has appeared in Glamour, The Hollywood Reporter, and Caribbean Business. She is an alumna of the Tin House Summer Workshop, an HRTS fellow, and a Women in Film fellow. Outside of her writing, she volunteers as a creative writing tutor at 826LA and can usually be found on a hiking trail or near the ocean.

Above all, she is passionate about the transformative power of storytelling and loves reading, writing, and helping other writers.

She lives in Los Angeles.