Jazmina Barrera

[1][2] Her books have been published in eight countries and translated into English, Italian, Dutch and Catalan.

[4] Born in Mexico City,[1] she studied modern English literature at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and received an MA in creative writing in Spanish from New York University on a Fulbright Scholarship.

Her work has appeared in prestigious publications such as The Paris Review, El País, Malpensante, The New York Times and Letras Libres.

In 2015 she co-founded Ediciones Antílope with Isabel Zapata, Marina Azahua, Astrid López Méndez and César Tejeda.

[4] In 2021 she received a grant from the Young Creators Programme of the Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes (FONCA) and was selected for a residency at Casa Estudio Cien Años de Soledad.