Brenda LOZANO (México)

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Fiction writer, essayist and publisher. She studied Literature in Mexico and the United States. She has had writing residencies in the United States, Europe, South America and Japan, has been anthologized on several occasions, has taught university courses and workshops, and has been involved in contemporary art and film projects. She edited the Chicago literary magazine Make and co-organized the art and literature festival Lit&Luz, based in Chicago and Mexico City, from 2013 to 2019. She is co-founder of the Signal imprint of the New York publishing house Ugly Duckling Presse, which focuses on the translation of Latin American poetry into English. Her first novel was Todo Nada (Tusquets, 2009), followed by Cuaderno ideal (Alfaguara, 2014 – published in English as Loop), the book of short stories Cómo piensan las piedras (Alfaguara, 2017), Brujas (Alfaguara, 2020 – published in English as Witches) and Soñar como sueñan los árboles (Alfaguara, 2024). Together with Gabriela Jáuregui she edited Monstrua (UNAM, 2022), an anthology of ten young Mexican writers. She was recognized by Conaculta, Hay Festival and the British Council as one of the most important writers under 40 in her country, and is one of the Bogotá39 list of prominent new Latin American authors. She is on the board of the Aura Estrada Prize and of the National Network of Artists. Her work has been translated into several languages. She writes a column in the newspaper El País and lives in Mexico City.

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