Aniela Rodríguez was born in Chihuahua, Mexico, in 1992 and has a master’s degree in modern letters from the Universidad Iberoamericana. She won the 2013 Chihuahua Prize for Literature with El confeccionador de deseos, and the Comala National Young Short Story Prize 2016 with El problema de los tres cuerpos. She has also published the poetry collection Insurgencia.