Dahlia de la Cerda

Dahlia de la Cerda

She was born, raised and currently lives in the City of Aguascalientes. She studied for a degree in Philosophy. She has been an employee of a call center, a bar and a candy factory. She has worked as an editor for international news and as a seller of Avón, black roses on the street and second-hand clothes in a flea market. In 2009 she won the Letras de la Memoria literary contest, convened by the Los Arquitos Cultural Center. In 2015 she was a scholarship holder of the Aguascalientes Creation and Artistic Development Stimulus Program (PECDA). She was a beneficiary of the Fonca Young Creators Program in the 2016 and 2018 broadcasts. She was the Winner of the Comala 2019 National Young Short Story Award. She has participated in the Mexican anthologies. She thirteen contemporary narratives (Fondo Blanco, 2021), The bodies we inhabit, fiction and non-fiction about the right to decide (AN-ALFA-BETA, 2021), Tsunami 2 (Sexto Piso, 2020) and Ecstasy (Astra Magazine, 2022 ). She writes an opinion column titled "Desde los zulos" for the magazine Reporte Sexto Piso. She is co-founder and co-director of the feminist collective Morras Help Morras. She talks non-stop on two podcasts: Write like a girl and Girls vs fundamentalisms.