Originally from Bogotá, Colombia, Cristian Tengono is an MA student in the Spanish program and the Women’s and Gender Studies Certificate. They earned their bachelor’s degree in Creative Writing at Universidad Central from Bogotá. 

As an author, Cristian has published poems in the queer Colombian poetry anthology Como la flor, Voces de la poesía cuir colombiana contemporánea, and short stories in the literary magazine El Espectador a Colombian newspaper.