Nadia Villafuerte
Nadia Villafuerte (Chiapas, 1978) studied music, literature, and journalism in Mexico. She has received grants from the National Foundation for Culture and Arts, the Foundation for Mexican Literature, the Fellowship for Academic Excellence and Studies Abroad CONACYT-FONCA, and a Mexican national grant for an artistic residency in New York City in 2013. She has published three fiction books: Barcos en Houston (Mexico, 2005, translated into English and published as Ships in Houston in the U.S. in 2023), ¿Te gusta el látex, Cielo? (Mexico, 2008), and Por el lado salvaje (Mexico, 2011). She is part of the literary anthologies México20: New Voices, Old Traditions (U.K., 2015, as part of the British Council/HAY Festival), and Palabras mayores, nueva narrativa mexicana (Spain, 2015), among others. Villafuerte received an MFA from the Creative Writing Program in Spanish and a PhD in Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literatures from New York University. She is working on her book The Forgotten Southern Mexican Passage: Violence, Expulsion, Memory and Resistance, where she analyzes an array of contemporary Mexican cultural productions (fiction, poetry, documentaries, films, photography, and performance) that offer insights into the overlooked Mexico-Guatemala borderlands.