Gabriela Jauregui (b. Mexico City) is a writer, translator and editor. She is the author of the novel Feral, winner of the Mexican National Fine Arts Award and finalist for the Amazon first novel prize as well as Many Fiestas, Leash Seeks Lost Bitch, Controlled Decay and the short story collection La memoria de las cosas. This year she published Zorra under Lava Editorial in Spain and Sexto Piso in Mexico. She edited and co-authored three essay collections Tsunami,Tsunami 2 as well as Tsunami 3. She holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Southern California, an MFA from the University of California Riverside and an MA from the University of California Irvine. She is a Soros New American Fellow, a Borchard Fellow and was selected as part of the Hay Festival's Bogotá 39 best young authors in Latin America. She is co-founder of the Aura Estrada Prize for young women writers and works in the forests belonging to the Mazahua peoples and the Monarch butterflies.