Marina Azahua

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Marina Azahua (Mexico City, 1983) is a writer, editor, translator and anthropologist. Her work focuses on the study of archival gestures, the relationship between human action and representation processes, the effects of violence including its materialization and the forms of collective resistance that arise in the face of its effects. She studied history at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, has a master’s degree in creative writing and editing from the University of Melbourne, and a doctorate in anthropology from Columbia University. She wrote the books Shared Absence (FOEM, 2013) and Involuntary Portrait. The photographic act as a form of violence (Tusquets, 2014). Among the various books she has translated, she recently worked on the Mexican edition of the book De Armas Tomar. Why Women Choose Violence by Nimmi Gowrinathan (Sixth Floor, 2023). She, along with Astrid López Méndez, César Tejeda, Isabel Zapata and Jazmina Barrera, founded the independent publishing house Ediciones Antílope in 2015. Currently she is a member of the National System of Art Creators in Mexico.