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Silvia Moreno-Garcia (born 25 April 1981) is a Mexican Canadian novelist, short story writer, editor, and publisher.

Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Born	(1981-04-25) 25 April 1981 (age 41) Baja California, Mexico
Occupation	Author
Nationality	Mexican
Genre	Speculative fiction
Notable works	Signal to Noise God of Jade and Shadow Mexican Gothic
Notable awards	World Fantasy Award—Anthology (2016) August Derleth Award (2021)
Website
www.silviamoreno-garcia.com

Early life and education

Moreno-Garcia was born 25 April 1981,[1] and raised in Mexico.[2] Both her parents worked for radio stations.[3] She moved to Canada in 2004.[4] Moreno-Garcia completed a master's degree in science and technology studies from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver in 2016.^{[citation needed]} She presently lives with her family in Vancouver, British Columbia.[4]

Career

Moreno-Garcia began her career publishing in various fiction magazines and books, including Exile Quarterly. She was a finalist for the 2011 Manchester Fiction Prize.[5] Her first short story collection, This Strange Way of Dying, was published in September 2013 by Exile Editions. Her second collection, Love and Other Potions, came out in 2014 from Innsmouth Free Press.[6] Her debut novel, Signal to Noise, was published in 2015 by Solaris Books.[7]

She serves as publisher of Innsmouth Free Press, an imprint devoted to weird fiction.[8] With Paula R. Stiles, she co-edited the books Historical Lovecraft (2011), Future Lovecraft (2012), Sword and Mythos (2014), and She Walks In Shadows (2015).[9][10][11][12] With Orrin Grey, she co-edited Fungi (2013), a collection of "fungal fiction".[13] With Lavie Tidhar, she edits The Jewish Mexican Literary Review.[14] In 2016, she won a World Fantasy Award for the anthology She Walks in Shadows and a Copper Cylinder Award for her novel Signal to Noise.

As of October 2019 Moreno-Garcia is a book columnist for The Washington Post.[15]

In February 2020 she was announced as a finalist for the Nebula Award 2019 in the Best Novel category for her book Gods of Jade and Shadow.[16]

Awards

Year Awarded	Nominee	Award	Result	Ref
2014	This Strange Way of Dying	Sunburst Award—Adult	Nominated	[17][18][19][20]
2016	She Walks in Shadows	World Fantasy Award—Anthology	Won	[17][21][22][23][24]
	Signal to Noise	British Fantasy Award—Fantasy Novel	Nominated	[17][25][26][27][28]
		Locus Award for Best First Novel	Nominated (3rd)	[17][29][30][31]
		Aurora Award—Novel	Nominated	[17][32][33]
		Copper Cylinder Adult Award	Won	[17][34][35][36]
		Sunburst Award—Adult	Nominated	[17][37][38][39][40]
2017	Certain Dark Things	Locus Award for Best Horror Novel	Nominated (4th)	[17][41][42][43]
2020	Gods of Jade and Shadow	Nebula Award for Best Novel (2019)	Nominated	[17][44][45][46]
		Dragon Awards—Fantasy Novel	Nominated	[17][47][48][49][50]
		Ignyte Awards—Adult Novel	Won	[17][51][52][53][54]
		Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel	Nominated (3rd)	[17][55][56][57]
		Aurora Award—Novel	Nominated	[17][58][59][60][61]
		Sunburst Award—Adult	Won	[17][62][63][64]
2021	Mexican Gothic	Nebula Award for Best Novel (2020)	Nominated	[17][65][66][67]
		Bram Stoker Award for Novel (2020)	Nominated	[17][68][69][70][71]
		World Fantasy Award—Novel	Nominated	[17][72][73][74][75]
		British Fantasy Award—Horror Novel (August Derleth Award)	Won	[17][76][77][78]
		Shirley Jackson Awards—Novel (2020)	Nominated	[17][79][80]
		Locus Award for Best Horror Novel	Won (1st)	[17][81][82][83]
		Aurora Award—Novel	Won	[17][84][85][86]
		Mythopoeic Awards—Adult Literature	Nominated	[17][87][88][89]
	Locus Award—Editor		Nominated (8th)	[17][81][82]
2022	The Return of the Sorceress	Locus Award for Best Novella	Nominated (10th)	[17][90][91][92]
		Aurora Award—Novella/Novelette	Pending	[17][93][94]
	Locus Award—Editor		Nominated (5th)	[17][90][91][92]

Bibliography

Novels

• Signal to Noise. Solaris Books. 2015. ISBN 978-1529418026.
• Certain Dark Things. Thomas Dunne Books. 25 October 2016. ISBN 978-1250099082.
• The Beautiful Ones. Thomas Dunne Books. 24 October 2017. ISBN 978-1250099068.
• Gods of Jade and Shadow. Del Rey. 23 July 2019. ISBN 978-0525620754.
• Untamed Shore. Agora Books. 11 February 2020. ISBN 978-1947993921.
• Mexican Gothic. Jo Fletcher Books. 30 June 2020. ISBN 978-1529402650.
• Velvet Was the Night. Del Rey. 17 August 2021. ISBN 978-0593356821.
• The Daughter of Doctor Moreau. Del Rey. 2022. ISBN 978-1529418026.

Chapbooks

• Prime Meridian. Innsmouth Free Press. 2017.
• The Return of the Sorceress. Subterranean Press. 2021.
• The Tiger Came to the Mountains. Amazon Original Stories. 2022.

Collections

• This Strange Way of Dying (2013)
• Other Lives (2013)
• Love and Other Poisons (2014)

Short fiction

As editor or co-editor

• Historical Lovecraft: Tales of Horror Through Time (with Paula R. Stiles) (2011)
• Candle in the Attic Window (2011) with Paula R. Stiles
• Future Lovecraft (with Paula R. Stiles) (2012)
• Innsmouth Magazine: Collected Issues 1-4 (with Paula R. Stiles) (2012)
• Innsmouth Magazine: Collected Issues 5-7 (with Paula R. Stiles) (2012)
• Fungi (with Orrin Grey) (2012)
• Dead North: Canadian Zombie Fiction (2013)
• Sword & Mythos (with Paula R. Stiles) (2014)
• Fractured: Tales of the Canadian Post-Apocalypse (2014)
• She Walks in Shadows (with Paula R. Stiles) (2015)
• Nebula Awards Showcase 2019 (2019)

Nonfiction

• A Writer's Guide to Speculative Fiction: Science Fiction and Fantasy (with Crawford Kilian) (2019)

References

External links

• Official website
• Silvia Moreno-Garcia on Twitter

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