The short story collection Un año de servicio a la habitación was published by UDG in 2019, and won the National Juan José Arreola Literature Prize.
[5] In that same year, Chapela received the Gilberto Owen National Prize for Literature in Mexico for the short story collection Ansibles, perfiladores y otras máquinas de ingenio.
According to Indent Literary Agency, "These ten stories take place in futures where a collection of devices like pings, ansibles, lenses, profilers, or sensory curtains—some of these installed within the human body—allow people to link their minds in a digital cloud, share their thoughts and memories, filter their perceptions, or calculate the success of a romance while they eat basket tacos or navigate the streets of a Mexico City that is completely covered by water.
With devastating intelligence, Andrea Chapela confronts her protagonists with realities where scientific knowledge, cutting-edge technology, and daily life interact in ways that are increasingly intricate and inevitable, so that even in the privacy of their minds, the voice of their own conscience no longer reigns.
It’s an uncanny memoir of inner and outer perceptions"[11] while literary translator Julia Sanches wrote: “A gimlet-eyed meditation on the dovetailing of science, the self, and written expression, The Visible Unseen jolted me.