Silvia Moreno-Garcia


Silvia Moreno-Garcia is a Mexican-Canadian novelist, short story writer, editor, and publisher.
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Early life and education

Moreno-Garcia was born 25 April 1981, and raised in Mexico. Both her parents worked for radio stations. 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. Her masters thesis focussed on eugenics in the work of H. P. Lovecraft. 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. 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. Her debut novel, Signal to Noise, was published in 2015 by Solaris Books.
She serves as publisher of Innsmouth Free Press, an imprint devoted to weird fiction. With Paula R. Stiles, she co-edited the books Historical Lovecraft, Future Lovecraft, Sword and Mythos, and She Walks in Shadows. With Orrin Grey, she co-edited Fungi, a collection of "fungal fiction". With Lavie Tidhar, she edits The Jewish Mexican Literary Review. 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.
In February 2020, her book Gods of Jade and Shadow was announced finalist for the 2019 Nebula Award for Best Novel.
Moreno-Garcia's novel Mexican Gothic was published in 2021 to acclaim and received multiple awards and nomination. Mexican Gothic was selected for the 2023 edition of Canada Reads, where it was championed by Tasnim Geedi. 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.
Moreno-Garcia's 10th novel, The Seventh Veil of Salome, was published in August 2024. Kirkus Reviews called the book a "rousing success", noting the 1950s historical drama's strong Golden-Age inspired dialogue and suspense.
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."

Adaptations

In August 2020, Milojo Productions and ABC Signature announced they would produce a limited series adaptation of Mexican Gothic, to be released on the streaming platform Hulu. Moreno-Garcia would serve as executive producer. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, the author stated that the series was estimated to be "between 8 and 10 episodes max". In April 2024, Moreno-Garcia confirmed Hulu would not be moving forward with the adaptation.
As of January 2025, a television adaptation of The Daughter of Doctor Moreau penned by Debra Moore Muñoz was in development.

Awards

Novels

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Chapbooks

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Collections

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Short fiction

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

As editor or co-editor

Historical Lovecraft: Tales of Horror Through Time Candle in the Attic Window with Paula R. StilesFuture Lovecraft Innsmouth Magazine: Collected Issues 1-4 Innsmouth Magazine: Collected Issues 5-7 Fungi Dead North: Canadian Zombie Fiction Sword & Mythos Fractured: Tales of the Canadian Post-Apocalypse She Walks in Shadows

Nonfiction

  • ''A Writer's Guide to Speculative Fiction: Science Fiction and Fantasy''