Novelist, short-story writer, essayist, publisher, and founder of several literary series. She has written the novels: La corte de los ilusos (1995 Planeta Prize), El paraíso que fuimos (2002), Alta infidelidad (2006), Efectos secundarios (2012), El cuerpo expuesto (2013) and Free Radicals (2021). She is the author of the short story collection Amores que matan (1996 and 2019) and the non-fiction Verdades virtuales (2019). Her successful novel Free Radicals (published in English by Katakana) has been through various editions. She has worked with other writers on the books El edén oscuro, (essays on Acapulco), El nacimiento del monstruo, El Cuerpo femenino y sus narrativas, La lectura al centro 55 autobiografías lectoras, El arte de hacer la primera comunión, Diario de la Pandemia and Ligeros de equipaje. Cuentos de viajes y viajeros. She is the creator of the Convers@s podcast. Her work has been translated into English, French, Italian, Dutch and Slovenian, and her short stories appear in numerous anthologies from various countries. She has received several awards, including from the American Association of University Women, the National University Award for Young Academics in the field of creative writing, the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Award from UNAM, most recently the 2022 José Emilio Pacheco Award for Excellence in Literature, and the Distinguished Scholar award from UCLA, where she completed her PhD in Comparative Literature. She is a full member of the Mexican Academy of Language and is currently the Coordinator of Cultural Outreach at UNAM.