Monica Ojeda Author

Monica Ojeda (Ecuador, 1988) is the author of the novels La desfiguracion Silva (Premio Alba Narrativa, 2014), Nefando (Candaya, 2016), and Mandibula (Candaya, 2018), as well as the poetry collections El ciclo de las piedras (Rastro de la Iguana, 2015) and Historia de la leche (Candaya, 2020). Her stories have been published in the anthology Emergencias: Doce cuentos iberoamericanos (Candaya, 2014) and the collections Caninos (Editorial Turbina, 2017) and Las voladoras (Paginas de Espuma, 2020). In 2017, she was included on the Bogota39 list of the best thirty-nine Latin American writers under forty, and in 2019, she received the Prince Claus Next Generation Award in honor of her outstanding literary achievements.