Born in Mexico City, Andrea Chapela studied Chemistry, and has an MFA in Spanish Creative Writing from the University of Iowa. From 2008 to 2015 she published Vâudïz, a YA fantasy saga, with the Spanish publishing house Urano. In 2016 she was awarded the Jóvenes Creadores grant by Mexico’s FONCA to write a sci-fi short story collection. She will attend Clarion West 2017.