Jazmina Barrera is a Mexican writer and member of the Mexico’s Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte. She is the author of five books in Spanish, including On Lighthouses, Linea Nigra, Cross-Stitch, and The Queen of Swords. She won the Literal: Latin American Voices first literary prize competition; was shortlisted for the Premio Gregor von Rezzori and the Queen Sofía Spanish Institute Translation Prize; was longlisted for the Republic of Consciousness Prize; and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle’s Barrios Book in Translation Prize as well as their Award for Memoir and Autobiography, the Cámara Nacional de la Industria Editorial Mexicana’s Book of the Year Award, the Amazon Primera Novela Award, and the Premio Cálamo. Her work has appeared in The Paris Review, El País, and the New York Times, among other publications. She is editor and co-founder of the Mexican publishing house Ediciones Antílope. She lives in Mexico City.

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