Liliana Blum

(México, 1974)

Es autora de las novelas Pandora (Tusquets, 2015), El monstruo pentápodo (Tusquets, 2017), Cara de Liebre (Seix Barral, 2020), El extraño caso de Lenny Goleman (Planeta, 2022) y Ráfaga roja (Seix Barral, 2025), y de los libros de cuentos La maldición de Eva (2002), ¿En qué se nos fue la mañana? (2007), Vidas de catálogo (2007), The Curse of Eve and Other Stories (2008), Yo sé cuando expira la leche (2011), Tristeza de los cítricos (2019), Todas hemos perdido algo (Tusquets, 2020) y Un descuido cósmico (Tusquets, 2023). Sus escritos son parte de las antologías El crimen como una de las bellas artes (2002), Atrapadas en la madre (2006), El espejo de Beatriz (2009), Óyeme con los ojos: de sor Juana al siglo XXI (2010) y Three Messages and a Warning: Contemporary Mexican Short Stories of the Fantastic (2012).

Other activities involving the participant:

Annual International Storytellers Conference

Bernardo Esquinca

La narrativa de Bernardo Esquinca (Guadalajara, 1972) se distingue por fusionar lo sobrenatural con lo policiaco. En Almadía ha publicado la Trilogía del Terror, conformada por los volúmenes de cuentos Los niños de paja, Demonia y Mar Negro; la Saga Casasola, integrada por las novelas La octava plaga, Toda la sangre, Carne de ataúd, Inframundo y Necropolitana; la antología Ciudad fantasma. Relato fantástico de la Ciudad de México (xix-xxi), El libro de los dioses y Asesina íntima. Las increíbles aventuras del asombroso Edgar Allan Poe recibió el Premio Nacional de Novela Negra de México en 2017.

Ferran Garcia

Invitado de Honor

Ferran Garcia Moreno was born on the Plain of Vic, and that explains a lot. He has published the novels Recorda que moriràs (Males Herbes, 2016), Blasfèmia (Males Herbes, 2019) and Guilleries (Males Herbes, 2022). As for poetry, he is the author of Larva (Lleonard Muntaner Editor, 2017; Pare Colom Poetry Award) and the unpublished collection Magror (21st Pere Badia Poetry Award, 2021). He has also published short stories in various anthologies and won the Recvll Award in 2020 for Òpera Creus,about the late writer Miquel Creus, from the same region of Catalonia. Sau (Males Herbes, 2025) is his most recent novel.

Other activities involving the participant:

The past that goes with us

Mónica Ojeda

(Ecuador, 1988)

Es autora de las novelas La desfiguración Silva (Premio Alba Narrativa, 2014), Nefando (Candaya, 2016), Mandíbula (Candaya, 2018) y Chamanes eléctricos en la fiesta del sol (Random House, 2024), así como de los poemarios El ciclo de las piedras (Rastro de la Iguana, 2015) e Historia de la leche (Candaya, 2020). Sus cuentos han sido recogidos en Caninos (Editorial Turbina, 2017) y Las voladoras (Páginas de Espuma, 2020). Ha sido seleccionada como una de las voces literarias más relevantes de Latinoamérica por el Hay Festival, Bogotá39 2017, y por la lista Granta en español 2021.

Other activities involving the participant:

Perreo, electro, and punk in literature

Ferran Garcia

Invitado de Honor

Ferran Garcia Moreno was born on the Plain of Vic, and that explains a lot. He has published the novels Recorda que moriràs (Males Herbes, 2016), Blasfèmia (Males Herbes, 2019) and Guilleries (Males Herbes, 2022). As for poetry, he is the author of Larva (Lleonard Muntaner Editor, 2017; Pare Colom Poetry Award) and the unpublished collection Magror (21st Pere Badia Poetry Award, 2021). He has also published short stories in various anthologies and won the Recvll Award in 2020 for Òpera Creus,about the late writer Miquel Creus, from the same region of Catalonia. Sau (Males Herbes, 2025) is his most recent novel.

Other activities involving the participant:

The literature that disturbs

Montse Albets

Invitado de Honor

Montse Albets Reig, born in Mataró in 1977, has worked as a bookseller, editor, publishing consultant and book club organiser. As well as university studies in Catalan language and literature, she has a degree in pre-school education, with a special interest in reading comprehension and reading aloud. She has also completed complementary literature studies at the Ateneu Barcelonès and the Campus Lolita, among other institutions. She won the 36th Ferran Canyameres Short Story Award for the story Convivència veïnal. In her first novel, Només terra, només pluja, només fang, memory and spoken language play a key role in narrating the characters’ relationships and emotions.
 

Other activities involving the participant:

Conquering the blank page: The first novel