Jazmina Barrera

Jazmina Barrera is a Mexican writer and essayist whose works explore themes of identity, memory, and the body. She is the author of several critically acclaimed books, including "Cuerpo extraño," which won the Latin American Voices Award in 2013, and "Linea nigra," a finalist for the CANIEM Book of the Year Award and the National Book Critics Circle’s Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize. Her other notable works include "Cuaderno de faros," longlisted for the Von Rezzori Prize, and the novels "Los nombres de los animales" and "Punto de Cruz." Barrera’s writing has been published in nine countries and translated into English, Italian, Dutch, and French.

Barrera holds a Master’s in Creative Writing in Spanish from New York University, which she attended with a Fulbright scholarship. She has been a fellow of Mexico’s National Fund for Culture and the Arts (FONCA) and a resident at the Casa Estudio Cien Años de Soledad. Her essays and fiction have appeared in prestigious publications such as "The Paris Review", "El País", and "The New York Times". A co-founder of Ediciones Antílope, Barrera continues to write and reside in Mexico City.