Biography

Socorro Venegas was born in San Luis Potosí in 1972. She currently lives in Cuernavaca.

Her short story collection Todas las islas was the winner of the 2002 Premio Nacional de Poesía y Cuento "Benemérito de América."

In 2004, her first novel, Será negra y blanca, won the Premio Nacional de Novela Ópera Prima "Carlos Fuentes."

Her stories have appeared in various anthologies, including Nuevas voces de la narrativa mexicana (2003) and Los mejores cuentos mexicanos 2004 (The Best Mexican Short Stories 2004).

Translations of her stories have appeared in Concho River Review, The Modern Review

Modern Review (North American)

The Modern Review is a magazine based in Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada that styles itself a "North American literary journal".The first issue, 58 pages thick, is dated September 2005. It is published quarterly by the Parsifal Press Literary Arts Association, a nonprofit organization...

, Literal, and The Listening Eye, among others.

External links

• "Johnny Depp"
• http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~fernand4/entre/venegas.html
• http://www.modern-review.com/archives/v_i/_summer06.html
• "Concho River Review"