Gabriela Jauregui

Gabriela Jauregui is the author of the novel Feral, the poetry collections Many Fiestas, Leash Seeks Lost Bitch, and Controlled Decay, and the short story collection La memoria de las cosas. She edited and coauthored two essay collections, Tsunami and Tsunami 2, published in Spanish in 2018 and 2021 respectively. She holds a PhD in comparative literature from USC, an MFA in creative writing from UC Riverside, and an MA in critical theory from UC Irvine. She is a Soros New American Fellow and a Borchard Fellow, and was selected as part of the Hay Festival's Bogotá 39 best young authors in Latin America. She is cofounder of the Aura Estrada Prize for young women writers and teaches at the National Autonomous University in Mexico (UNAM).