Silvia Moreno-Garcia (born 25 April 1981) is a Mexican-Canadian novelist, short story writer, editor, and publisher.
Life and education Moreno-Garcia was born 25 April 1981 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 at the University of British Columbia in 2016. Her master's thesis focused 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 (2011), Future Lovecraft (2012), Sword and Mythos (2014), and She Walks in Shadows (2015). With Orrin Grey, she co-edited Fungi (2013). With Lavie Tidhar, she edited The Jewish Mexican Literary Review. In 2016, she and Stiles 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 as a finalist for the 2019 Nebula Award for Best Novel.
Moreno-Garcia's novel Mexican Gothic was published in 2021 to critical acclaim, received the Aurora Award for Best Novel, Locus Award for Best Horror Novel, and British Fantasy Award for Best Horror Novel, and was shortlisted for the Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel and Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel. 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 a 2023 nominee for the Hugo Award for Best Novel. Her novel Silver Nitrate was published in 2023.
Moreno-Garcia's tenth 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 Year Awarded Work Award Category Result 2014 This Strange Way of Dying Sunburst Award Adult Novel 2016 She Walks in Shadows World Fantasy Award Anthology Signal to Noise Aurora Award Novel British Fantasy Award Fantasy Novel Copper Cylinder Award — Locus Award First Novel Sunburst Award Adult Novel 2017 Certain Dark Things Locus Award Horror Novel 2020 Gods of Jade and Shadow Aurora Award Novel Dragon Awards Fantasy Novel Ignyte Awards Adult Novel Locus Award Fantasy Novel Nebula Award Novel (2019) Sunburst Award Adult Novel 2021Mexican Gothic Aurora Award Novel Bram Stoker Award Novel (2020) British Fantasy Award Horror Novel (August Derleth Award) Locus Award Horror Novel Mythopoeic Awards Adult Literature Nebula Award Novel (2020) Shirley Jackson Award Novel (2020) World Fantasy Award Novel — Locus Award Editor 2022 Aurora Award Novella/Novelette Locus Award Novella — Locus Award Editor 2023 Hugo Award Novel Locus Award Science Fiction Novel 2026 Aurora Award Best Novel Bram Stoker Award (2025) Novel Locus Award Horror Novel Aurora Award Novelette/Novella Retrieved 2026-08-23.
Bibliography Novels
Chapbooks
Collections
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)
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External links
Official website