Children’s books were things like The Count of Monte Cristo. I don’t know how it was in the US or Canada, but we didn’t have literature for children when I was growing up. At the same time, I was also reading non-Anglo stuff. There were some books that were not translated and I wanted to read them. In Mexico many of us learn English from kindergarten, so I was also reading in English. She had a lot of books in translation in Spanish – all the classics, Dune and Tolkien and all that – but she also had the people who were emerging in the ’70s: Tanith Lee, Anne McCaffrey, and others. “My mother liked fantasy and science fiction. Her latest book is historical fantasy Gods of Jade and Shadow (2019). Other novels include Certain Dark Things (2016) and The Beautiful Ones (2017). Her debut novel Signal to Noise (2015) was a finalist for Aurora, Sunburst, and British Fantasy Awards, and won a Copper Cylinder Award. Some of her stories have been collected in This Strange Way of Dying (2013) and novella Prime Meridian appeared in 2017. Moreno began publishing short fiction in 2016, and her work has appeared in Shimmer, Nightmare, Fantasy, and other magazines, plus various anthologies. She became co-editor of The Dark in 2016.

Her anthologies from other publishers include Dead North: Canadian Zombie Fiction (2013), Fractured: Tales of the Canadian Post-Apocalypse (2014), and Nebula Awards Showcase 2019 (2019). She also co-edited Fungi (2012) with Orrin Grey. They published 15 issues of Innsmouth Magazine from 2009-14, along with numerous anthologies, including several co-edited by Moreno-Garcia & Stiles: Historical Lovecraft: Tales of Horror Through Time (2011), Candle in the Attic Window (2011), Future Lovecraft (2011), World Fantasy Award winner She Walks in Shadows (2015 as Cthulhu’s Daughters: Stories of Lovecraftian Horror, 2016), and Sword & Mythos (2014). Stiles launched weird fiction publisher Innsmouth Free Press in 2009. She now works in communications at the University of British Columbia. She studied journalism in Canada and recently earned a Master’s in science and technology studies. She attended Endicott College in Massachusetts, where she studied communications, then returned to Mexico, where she married her husband they immigrated to Canada 15 years ago, and have two children.

1925, d.S ilvia Moreno-Garcia was born Apin Baja California, Mexico, and grew up in various places throughout the country. The Shaft Through the Middle of It All.short fiction by Jesse Bullington and Molly Tanzer.The Pearl in the Oyster and the Oyster Under Glass.anthology by Orrin Grey and Silvia Moreno-Garcia Contents (view Concise Listing).

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