Andrea Chapela

Andrea Chapela (Mexico City, 1990) has a degree in chemistry from the UNAM (National Autonomous University of Mexico) and an MFA in Spanish Creative Writing from the University of Iowa. The four books of her saga Vâudïz were published between 2008 and 2015 by the publishing house Urano. In 2016, she was awarded a Jóvenes Creadores grant for a science fiction short story collection. In September 2017, she was awarded a grant by the Spanish government to live and work for two years in Madrid’s famed Residencia de Estudiantes. In 2019, she received the Gilberto Owen National Prize for Literature in Mexico for the book Ansibles, perfiladores y otras máquinas de ingenio [Ansibles, Profilers, and Other Ingenious Machines]. In the same year, her Grados de miopía (The Visible Unseen) won the National Joven José Luis Martínez Essay Prize in Mexico for essays by young writers. The book is a lyrical essay, published by Tierra Adentro in fall 2019. Her stories have been published in the journals Tierra Adentro, Este País, and in various anthologies. In English translation, her publications include poems in The Brooklyn Rail InTranslation and an essay in Tupelo Quarterly. Andrea was named one of Granta’s Best Young Spanish-Language Novelists in 2021. She is represented by Indent Literary Agency.

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