
Hiram Ruvalcaba (Zapotlán el Grande, Jalisco, 1988). Narrator, journalist, and literature professor. He holds a degree in Hispanic Literature from the University of Guadalajara and a master's degree in Asian and African Studies from El Colegio de México. He has been a scholarship recipient of the PECDA Jalisco and the Fonca (National Institute of International Studies). He won the Mariano Azuela National Narrative Prize (2016), the Comala National Young Short Story Prize (2018), the Ricardo Garibay National Young Chronicle Prize (2020), the José Alvarado National Short Story Prize (2020), and the Agustín Yáñez National Short Story Prize (2021). Among his works are the story books The Night Without a Name (2018), Parents Without Children (2021), Up Close Nobody Is Normal (2022), the book of chronicles The Children of the Water (2021) and the novel Every Town Is a Scar (2023), winner of the Amazon First Novel Award and the Filiberto Award for Best Crime Novel 2023.