Silvia Moreno-Garcia Explained

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

Early life and education

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

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.^[3] 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.^[4] Her debut novel, Signal to Noise, was published in 2015 by Solaris Books.^[5]

She serves as publisher of Innsmouth Free Press, an imprint devoted to weird fiction.^[6] 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).^{[7] [8] [9] [10]} With Orrin Grey, she co-edited Fungi (2013), a collection of "fungal fiction".^[11] With Lavie Tidhar, she edits The Jewish Mexican Literary Review.^[12] In 2016, she won a World Fantasy Award—Anthology for She Walks in Shadows.

As of October 2019, Moreno-Garcia is a book columnist for The Washington Post.^[13]

In February 2020, her book Gods of Jade and Shadow was announced finalist for the 2019 Nebula Award for Best Novel.^[14]

Moreno-Garcia's novel Mexican Gothic was published in 2021 to acclaim and received multiple awards and nomination.^[15] Mexican Gothic was selected for the 2023 edition of Canada Reads, where it was championed by Tasnim Geedi.^[16] Moreno-Garcia's 2022 novel The Daughter of Doctor Moreau was also announced as a 2023 nominee for the Hugo Award for Best Novel. Moreno-Garcia's novel Silver Nitrate was published in 2023.^{[17] [18] [19] [20] [21]}

Moreno-Garcia's 10th novel, The Seventh Veil of Salome, was published in August 2024.^[22] Kirkus Reviews called the book a "rousing success", noting the 1950s historical drama's strong Golden-Age inspired dialogue and suspense.^[23]

The New York Times reviewer Lauren LeBlanc wrote of Moreno-Garcia's writing,

"Books that skew more cinematic than conventionally literary are often dismissed as formulaic, but in Moreno-Garcia’s skillful hands, you’ll find the satisfaction of richly drawn characters, saturated settings and deftly constructed plot twists. Inhaling her backlist has been the unexpected delight of my summer. No matter the genre — gothic, horror, noir — she’ll embody its essence with a verve all her own."^[24]

Awards

Year Awarded	Nominee	Award	Result	Ref
2014	This Strange Way of Dying	Sunburst Award—Adult		[25] [26] [27] [28]
2016	She Walks in Shadows	World Fantasy Award—Anthology		[29] [30] [31] [32]
	Signal to Noise	Aurora Award—Novel		[33] [34]
		British Fantasy Award—Fantasy Novel		[35] [36] [37] [38]
		Copper Cylinder Adult Award		[39] [40] [41]
		Locus Award for Best First Novel		[42] [43] [44]
		Sunburst Award—Adult		[45] [46] [47] [48]
2017	Certain Dark Things	Locus Award for Best Horror Novel		[49] [50] [51]
2020	Gods of Jade and Shadow	Aurora Award—Novel		[52] [53] [54] [55]
		Dragon Awards—Fantasy Novel		[56] [57] [58] [59]
		Ignyte Awards—Adult Novel		[60] [61] [62] [63]
		Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel		[64] [65] [66]
		Nebula Award for Best Novel (2019)		[67] [68] [69]
		Sunburst Award—Adult		[70] [71] [72]
2021	Mexican Gothic	Aurora Award—Novel		[73] [74] [75]
		Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel (2020)		[76] [77] [78] [79]
		British Fantasy Award—Horror Novel (August Derleth Award)		[80] [81] [82]
		Locus Award for Best Horror Novel		[83] [84] [85]
		Mythopoeic Awards—Adult Literature		[86] [87] [88]
		Nebula Award for Best Novel (2020)		[89] [90] [91]
		Shirley Jackson Award—Novel (2020)		[92] [93]
		World Fantasy Award—Novel		[94] [95] [96] [97]
	—	Locus Award—Editor
2022	The Return of the Sorceress	Aurora Award—Novella/Novelette		[98] [99]
		Locus Award for Best Novella		[100] [101] [102]
	—	Locus Award—Editor
2023	The Daughter of Doctor Moreau	Hugo Award for Best Novel		[103]

Bibliography

Novels

• Book: Moreno-Garcia . Signal to Noise . Signal to Noise (Moreno-Garcia novel) . Solaris Books . 2015 . 9781529418026 . 2.
• Book: Moreno-Garcia . Certain Dark Things . Thomas Dunne Books . 2016 . 9781250099082 . 2.
• Book: Moreno-Garcia . The Beautiful Ones . Thomas Dunne Books . 2017 . 9781250099068 . 2.
• Book: Moreno-Garcia . . Del Rey . 2019 . 9780525620754 . 2.
• Book: Moreno-Garcia . Untamed Shore . Agora Books . 2020 . 9781947993921 . 2.
• Book: Moreno-Garcia . . Jo Fletcher Books . 2020 . 9781529402650 . 2.
• Book: Moreno-Garcia . Velvet Was the Night . Del Rey . 2021 . 9780593356821 . 2.
• Book: Moreno-Garcia . . Del Rey . 2022 . 9781529418026 . 2.
• Book: Moreno-Garcia . Silver Nitrate . Random House . 2023 . 9780593355367 . 2.
• Book: Moreno-Garcia . The Seventh Veil of Salome . Del Rey . 2024 . 9780593600269 . 2.

Chapbooks

• Book: Moreno-Garcia . Prime Meridian . Innsmouth Free Press . 2017 . 2.
• Book: Moreno-Garcia . The Return of the Sorceress . Subterranean Press . 2021 . 2.
• Book: Moreno-Garcia . The Tiger Came to the Mountains . Amazon Original Stories . 2022 . 2.
• Book: Moreno-Garcia . The Lover . Amazon Original Stories . 2023 . 2.

Collections

• Book: Moreno-Garcia . . 2013 . 2.
• Book: Moreno-Garcia . Other Lives . 2013 . 2.
• Book: Moreno-Garcia . Love and Other Poisons . 2014 . 2.

Short fiction

• "Mirror Life" (2006; collected in Other Lives (2013))
• "King of Sand and Stormy Seas" (2006; collected in Other Lives (2013))
• "Water" (2007)
• "Shedding Her Own Skin" (2007)
• "Candles for the Dead" (2008)
• "Maquech" (2008; collected in This Strange Way of Dying (2013))
• "Of Fire and Time" (2008)
• "Enchantment" (2008)
• "Return" (2008)
• "Jaguar Woman" (2009; collected in This Strange Way of Dying (2013))
• "Bed of Scorpions" (2009; collected in This Strange Way of Dying (2013))
• "B'alam" (2009)
• "Sinking Palaces" (2009)
• "The Harpy" (2010)
• "Distant Deeps or Skies" (2010)
• "Seeds" (2010)
• "Salt" (2010; collected in Other Lives (2013))
• "The Manticore" (2010)
• "Weekday" (2010)
• "Bloodlines" (2010; collected in This Strange Way of Dying (2013))
• "Driving with Aliens in Tijuana" (2010; collected in This Strange Way of Dying (2013))
• "The English Cemetery" (2011)
• "Flash Frame" (2011; collected in This Strange Way of Dying (2013))
• "The Death Collector" (2011; collected in This Strange Way of Dying (2013))
• "At the Edge" (2011)
• "Shade of the Ceibra Tree" (2011; collected in This Strange Way of Dying (2013))
• "Scales as Pale as Moonlight" (2011; collected in This Strange Way of Dying (2013))
• "A Handful of Earth" (2011)
• "This Strange Way of Dying" (2011; collected in This Strange Way of Dying (2013))
• "A Puddle of Blood" (2011)
• "Memory" (2011)
• "Collect Call" (2012)
• "The Performance" (2012)
• "In the House of the Hummingbirds" (2012)
• "The Doppelgangers" (2012; collected in This Strange Way of Dying (2013))
• "The Cemetery Man" (2013; collected in This Strange Way of Dying (2013))
• "Iron Justice Versus the Fiends of Evil" (2013)
• "The Gringo" (2013)
• "Nahuales" (2013; collected in This Strange Way of Dying (2013))
• "Them Ships" (2013)
• "Variations of Figures Upon the Wall" (2013)
• "Abandon All Flesh" (2013)
• "River, Dreaming" (2013)
• "Snow" (2013; collected in This Strange Way of Dying (2013))
• "Stories with Happy Endings" (2013; collected in This Strange Way of Dying (2013))
• "The Sea, Like Broken Glass" (2013)
• "Kaleidoscope" (2014)
• "Man in Blue Overcoat" (2014)
• "To See Pedro Infante" (2014)
• "Phrase Book" (2014)
• "Ahuizotl" (2015)
• "Lacrimosa" (2015)
• "In the Details" (2015)
• "Legacy of Salt" (2016)
• "Jade, Blood" (2017)
• Prime Meridian (novella) (2017)
• "Give Me Your Black Wings Oh Sister" (2019)
• "On the Lonely Shore" (2019)
• "Kaleidoscope / Caleidoscopio" (with Carlos Arturo Serrano) (2021)

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)

External links

• Official website

Notes and References

1. Web site: Interview with Silvia Moreno- Garcia. 16 January 2013 . 17 March 2015.
2. Web site: Interview: Silvia Moreno-Garcia, author of Signal to Noise. 17 March 2015.
3. Web site: Mills. Adam. Interview with Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Orrin Grey. 5 March 2013 .
4. Web site: Love & Other Poisons – Silvia Moreno-Garcia . 7 November 2015 . 15 May 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190515192806/http://www.silviamoreno-garcia.com/blog/bibliography/love-other-poisons/ . dead .
5. Web site: SIGNAL TO NOISE. 17 March 2015.
6. http://www.innsmouthfreepress.com/blog/staff/ Innsmouth Free Press
7. Web site: Innsmouth Free Press - Historical Lovecraft. Apr 6, 2020.
8. Web site: Innsmouth Free Press - Future Lovecraft. Apr 6, 2020.
9. Web site: Innsmouth Free Press - Sword and Mythos. Apr 6, 2020. 22 April 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160422212715/http://www.innsmouthfreepress.com/blog/books/swordmythos/. dead.
10. Web site: She Walks in Shadows. Apr 6, 2020. www.innsmouthfreepress.com.
11. Web site: Fungi. Apr 6, 2020. www.innsmouthfreepress.com.
12. http://www.thejmlr.com/about-2/ The Jewish Mexican Literary Review
13. News: Review The weird, the wacky, the underappreciated: A new look at science fiction and fantasy. Silvia. Moreno-Garcia. Lavie. Tidhar. Washington Post. October 8, 2016. Apr 6, 2020.
14. Web site: 2019 Nebula Award Finalists Announced . Science Fiction Writers Association . 20 February 2020 . . 2020-02-20 .
15. Web site: 2024-05-08 . Resolve and Resistance in Silvia Moreno-Garcia's Groundbreaking Mexican Gothic . 2024-06-12 . the-line-up.com . en.
16. https://www.cbc.ca/books/canadareads/meet-the-canada-reads-2023-contenders-1.6716837 "Meet the Canada Reads 2023 contenders"
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18. Web site: Gittelman . Maya . 2023-11-21 . Nevertheless a Wonder: Silvia Moreno-Garcia Stuns Again in Silver Nitrate . 2024-06-12 . Reactor . en-US.
19. Web site: Heller . Jason . July 19, 2023 . In 'Silver Nitrate,' a cursed film propels 2 childhood friends to the edges of reality . NPR.
20. Web site: 2023-07-24 . Silvia Moreno-Garcia on the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema, Occultism, and the Pitfalls of Ethnocentrism . 2024-06-12 . Shondaland . en-US.
21. Web site: Garrett . Yvonne C. . 2023-09-01 . Silvia Moreno-Garcia's Silver Nitrate and Brenda Lozano's Witches . 2024-06-12 . The Brooklyn Rail . en-US.
22. Web site: The Seventh Veil of Salome: A GMA Book Club Pick by Silvia Moreno-Garcia: 9780593600269 PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books . 2024-09-23 . PenguinRandomhouse.com . en-US.
23. Web site: The Seventh Veil of Salome . Kirkus Reviews . en.
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