Malena Salazar Maciá

Malena Salazar Maciá (born in Havana, Cuba, in 1988) is a multiple award-winning Cuban author of science fiction and fantasy. Her books include the award-winning novels Nade (2015) and Las peregrinaciones de los dioses (2017).
Considered one of the most prominent writers of her generation in her home country, she has widely published her fiction in magazines and anthologies around the world. Along with her fellow Cuban writers Yadira Álvarez Betancourt and Elaine Vilar Madruga, she is one of the first Cuban writers born in the 1980s to be translated into other languages.
Translations of her fiction have appeared or are forthcoming in and Selene Quarterly Magazine.
Biography
She is a graduate of the Onelio Jorge Cardoso writing workshop. In 2015, she was awarded the Premio David de Ciencia Ficción for her debut novel Nade. Her second novel Las peregrinaciones de los dioses won the Premio Calendario in the same category in 2017.
Works in English
:* 2019: "The Kiss of the Water" (short story, in Mithila Review)
:* 2019: "Shots in the Dark" (short story, in The Ansible)
:* 2019: "The Other Me" (short story, in The Ansible)
:* 2019: "The Goddess" (short story, in Selene Quarterly Magazine)
:* 2019: "Colors That Tinted the Sky" (excerpt from Nade, in Speculative Fiction in Translation)
Works in Spanish
:* 2017: Las peregrinaciones de los dioses (novel).
:* 2015: Nade (novel).

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