Aura García-Junco

Aura García-Junco was born in Mexico City in 1988. She studied Classical Literature at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. She is an author, screenwriter, and occasional translator. She was a scholar at the Foundation for Mexican Letters (2016) and the FONCA Young Creators Program (2014, 2017, and 2021). She is the author of the novel Anticitera, artefacto dentado (2018; Booklet, 2022) and the essay El día que aprendí que no sé amar (Seix Barral, 2022). In 2021, she was selected by Granta as one of the 25 Best Young Spanish-Language Narrators. Mar de piedra is her second novel.