Christopher Ayala is a writer from Massachusetts. He was awarded an MFA in fiction from the Program for Poets & Writers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he was a Juniper Fellow in Fiction, a Technology Fellow in The Writing Program, an honorable mention for the Deborah Slosberg Award, and recipient of the inaugural James W. Foley Memorial Prize for Fiction as well as a R.E.A.L Diversity Fellowship.
His work, largely a meditation on modernity, loneliness, and isolation, has appeared in The Massachusetts Review, Keith LLC, and Big Big Wednseday with an interdisciplinary performance given at the School for Contemporary Dance and Thought’s HUT series alongside Shura Baryshnikov and Paul Flaherty. In 2024 he was the recipient of the Pietsch Family scholarship at the Community of Writers. He has been in residence at NES Listamiǒstöǒ in Skagaströnd, Iceland.
He is an Associate Teaching Professor at Northeastern University in Boston, MA.