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| Born | 25 April 1981 Baja California, Mexico |
| Occupation | Author |
| Genre | Speculative fiction |
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Silvia Moreno-Garcia (born 25 April 1981) is a Mexican and Canadian novelist, short story writer, editor, and publisher.
Moreno-Garcia was born 25 April 1981,[1] and raised in Mexico.[2] Both her parents worked for radio stations.[3] She moved to Canada in 2004.[4] Moreno-Garcia completed a master's degree in science and technology studies from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver in 2016.[citation needed] She presently lives with her family in Vancouver, British Columbia.[4]
Moreno-Garcia began her career publishing in various fiction magazines and books, including Exile Quarterly. She was a finalist for the 2011 Manchester Fiction Prize.[5] Her first short story collection, This Strange Way of Dying, was published in September 2013 by Exile Editions. Her second collection, Love and Other Potions, came out in 2014 from Innsmouth Free Press.[6] Her debut novel, Signal to Noise, was published in 2015 by Solaris Books.[7]
She serves as publisher of Innsmouth Free Press, an imprint devoted to weird fiction.[8] With Paula R. Stiles, she co-edited the books Historical Lovecraft (2011), Future Lovecraft (2012), Sword and Mythos (2014), and She Walks In Shadows (2015).[9][10][11][12] With Orrin Grey, she co-edited Fungi (2013), a collection of "fungal fiction".[13] With Lavie Tidhar, she edits The Jewish Mexican Literary Review.[14] In 2016, she won a World Fantasy Award for the anthology She Walks in Shadows and a Copper Cylinder Award for her novel Signal to Noise.
As of October 2019, Moreno-Garcia is a book columnist for The Washington Post.[15]
In February 2020, she was announced as a finalist for the Nebula Award 2019 in the Best Novel category for her book Gods of Jade and Shadow.[16]
Moreno-Garcia's novel Mexican Gothic was published in 2021 to acclaim and received multiple awards and nomination. Mexican Gothic was selected for the 2023 edition of Canada Reads, where it was championed by Tasnim Geedi.[17] Moreno-Garcia's 2022 novel The Daughter of Doctor Moreau was also announced as a 2023 nominee for the Hugo Award for Best Novel.
