Suzette Celaya Aguilar

Suzette Celaya Aguilar

Hermosillo, Sonora, 1982. Her father says that as a child she liked to contemplate the sky for long periods of time. She is a narrator, editor and mother of Jonás, a being who throws the universe at him with her eyes. At the age of 27, she left the desert and went to live in Mexico City to study Literary Creation at the Sogem Writers' School. From there she collaborated in various cultural magazines. In 2012 she obtained the scholarship for Young Creators from the State Fund for Culture and the Arts of Sonora. In 2018, the Colegio de Sonora published his master's thesis What El Novillo took, on forced displacement. In 2020 she won the Sonoran Book Contest in the novel genre. In 2021 she was selected to be part of the Fourth Tale Anthology of Mexican Women Writers. Us is her first novel.