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Growing up in Mexico, we didn't have a dividing line between the fantastical and the literary, like you do in Canada, so it bled through. Therefore, my writing bleeds through categories and I enjoy the challenge of changing constantly, like molting out of a book.

— Silvia Moreno-Garcia Interview (2017)

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People love to classify things as black and white, good or bad, but I’ve seldom met any one who can be neatly defined and classified…

It’s never as fun seeing the monster as much as imagining.

I am partial to quiet, slow, psychologically intricate work.

Noemí’s father said she cared too much about her looks and parties to take school seriously, as if a woman could not do two things at once.

Mexican Gothic (2020)

Mortals have always been frightened of the night's velvet embrace and the creatures that walk in it, and yet they find themselves mesmerized by it.

Gods of Jade and Shadow (2019)

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