Jazmina Barrera

Born in Mexico City in 1988, Jazmina Barrera has been a fellow at the Foundation for Mexican Letters and a grantee of the Young Creators program at FONCA. She has a Master’s degree in Creative Writing in Spanish from New York University, which she completed with the support of a Fulbright grant. Her book of essays, Cuerpo extraño (Foreign Body) was awarded the Latin American Voices prize from Literal Publishing in 2013. On Lighthouses, a work of memoir and literary history, was praised by The Paris Review and The Los Angeles Review of Books. Rivka Galchen praised her latest, Linea Nigra: An Essay on Pregnancy and Earthquakes, as “such a wonder and a joy.” The editor and co-founder of Ediciones Antílope, Barrera lives in Mexico City.