Amparo Dávila (21 February 1928 – 18 April 2020)[1] was a Mexican writer best known for her short stories touching on the fantastic and the uncanny.

[2] She won the Xavier Villarrutia Award in 1977 for her short story collection, Árboles petrificados.

[2] In 2015, a literary prize in her honor was created in Mexico for the best story within the genre of "the fantastic": the Premio Bellas Artes del Cuento Fantástico Amparo Dávila.

[4] In 1966, she was a part of the Centro Mexicano de Escritores (Mexican Writers' Center) where she received a grant to continue writing.

I want to leave in a sunny day of a green Spring full of sprouts and birds and flowers to look for my Garden of Eden, my lost paradise and enjoy the fruit of the vine and the fig tree, the perfume of the blossomed cherry and orange trees, the warmth of the sun that never sets.Davila is known for her use of themes of insanity, danger, and death, typically dealing with a female protagonist.