Shortlisted for the National Book Award, 2022

Included in Granta magazine’s selection of the 25 most promising Spanish-language writers under 35, 2021

‘Next Generation Award’, 2019 from the Prince Claus Foundation

Member of the List of Bogotá 39-2017: the best Latin American writers under 39

She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Social Communication with a specialisation in Literature, and a Master’s degree in Creative Writing and in Cultural Theory and Criticism; she has taught at the Universidad Católica de Santiago in Guayaquil.

She currently lives in Madrid, where she teaches Creative Writing.

In 2021, she was selected by Granta as one of the twenty-five best Spanish-language short-story writers under the age of thirty-five.

I read Mónica Ojeda with fear and fascination. As if I were reading a spell, as if I were eating meat fearing something sharp in it. So poetic, so disturbing and brutal. Samanta Schweblin

One of the most powerful Latin American novelists today. Carlos Pardo, Babelia, El País

One of the most powerful voices in contemporary Spanish literature. Karina Sainz Borgo, ABC Newspaper

​Mónica Ojeda has at her disposal the most enviable combination I can imagine, and she has it in spades: a lucid mind, an exacting language, and a wild heart. Andrés Barba

Ojeda writes like the sentences are escaping from the fractured earth after disaster. Charlene Elsby, Reviews

One of the indispensable names from the Latin American new narrative. David Pérez Vega, Revista Eñe

A breath of fresh air shaking the Latin American literature. Xavi Ayén, La Vanguardia

She might become addictive. Ricardo Baixeras, El Periódico de Catalunya

Of this new generation of horror writers, Mónica Ojeda is inarguably one of the most important, and certainly the most avant-garde in her approach. Matthew Eatough, Ancillary Review of Books

One of the most prominent young Latin American writers of the moment. Livres Hebdo

Works

Other titles by the author

Historia de la leche, 2020
El ciclo de las piedras, 2015