Olivia Teroba

Pequeñas manifestaciones de luz
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Olivia Teroba (Tlaxcala, 1988) is a writer and editor. She has been a fellow of various national writing programs, such as the Foundation for Mexican Letters, FONCA and Under the Volcano. She obtained the “Edmundo Valadés” Latin American Short Story Award in 2017. Her first book, Un lugar Seguro, a hybrid between essay and feminist autobiography, was published in Mexico in 2019 by the Paraíso Perdido publishing house and in 2021 in Spain and Argentina by Las Afueras. Breathing underwater, a volume of stories with women as protagonists, was the winner of the “Salvador Gallardo Dávalos” National Prize for Young Literature and published by Paraíso Perdido in 2020. That same year, it was part of the Mexicanas anthology. Thirteen contemporary narratives, edited by Laura Baeza for Editorial Fondo Blanco and from the compilation En una orilla brumosa, selected by Verónica Gerber for Gris Tormenta. Her book Small Manifestations of Light, made up of fictions that explore the intimate repercussions of social violence, will be published in 2021 in Dharma Books, as part of the Casa Wabi – Dharma Books Narrative Prize.