{"id":1724,"date":"2023-09-10T23:00:17","date_gmt":"2023-09-10T23:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/?post_type=tribe_organizer&#038;p=1724"},"modified":"2023-09-29T11:50:58","modified_gmt":"2023-09-29T18:50:58","slug":"jazmina-barrera","status":"publish","type":"tribe_organizer","link":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/bio\/jazmina-barrera\/","title":{"rendered":"Jazmina Barrera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Jazmina Barrera<\/strong> was born in Mexico City in 1988. She was a fellow at the Foundation for Mexican Letters and at Mexico\u2019s Fonca\u2019s Program for young writers. She was a beneficiary of the residencies at Casa Estudio Cien a\u00f1os de Soledad. She has published work in various print and digital media, such as <em>The Paris Review, El Malpensante, Words Without Borders, El Pa\u00eds, The New York Times<\/em> and Electric Literature. She has a Master&#8217;s Degree in Creative Writing in Spanish from New York University, which she completed with the support of a Fulbright grant. She is the author of four books in Spanish: <em>Cuerpo extra\u00f1o, Cuaderno de faros, Linea nigra<\/em> and the children\u2019s book, <em>Los nombres de los animales<\/em> and <em>Punto de cruz<\/em>. Her books have been published in nine countries and translated to English, Dutch, Portuguese Italian and French. Her book of essays <em>Cuerpo extra\u00f1o<\/em> (<em>Foreign Body<\/em>) was awarded the Latin American Voices prize by Literal Publishing in 2013. Cuaderno de faros was long listed for the von Rezzori award. The English version of <em>Cuaderno de faros, On Lighthouses<\/em>, (Two Lines Press, 2020) was chosen for the Indie Next list by Indie Bound. <em>Linea Nigra<\/em> was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle\u2019s Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Autobiography Prize, CANIEM\u2019s Book of the year award and the Amazon Primera Novela (First Novel) Award. She is editor and co-founder of Ediciones Ant\u00edlope. She lives in Mexico City. Her newest novel to be published by Two Lines in an English translation by Christina MacSweeney is <em>Cross-Stitch.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1725\" src=\"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/cover_barrera_81GSBCCBuPL._AC_UF10001000_QL80_-182x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"182\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/cover_barrera_81GSBCCBuPL._AC_UF10001000_QL80_-182x300.jpg 182w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/cover_barrera_81GSBCCBuPL._AC_UF10001000_QL80_-575x949.jpg 575w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/cover_barrera_81GSBCCBuPL._AC_UF10001000_QL80_-380x627.jpg 380w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/cover_barrera_81GSBCCBuPL._AC_UF10001000_QL80_.jpg 606w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 182px) 100vw, 182px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jazmina Barrera was born in Mexico City in 1988. She was a fellow at the Foundation for Mexican Letters and at Mexico\u2019s Fonca\u2019s Program for young writers. She was a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2037,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_organizer\/1724"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_organizer"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_organizer"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_organizer\/1724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2040,"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_organizer\/1724\/revisions\/2040"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}