Dainerys Machado Vento is a

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writer and scholar. She was born in

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in 1986. She studied journalism at the

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, followed by doctoral studies in Modern Languages and Literature at the

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. She is the author of ''Las noventa Habanas'' (short stories, 2019) and ''Retratos de la orilla'' (short stories, 2022). Her stories have been anthologized in Mexico and the United States, and her journalistic work has appeared in outlets such as

Cuadernos Americanos ''Cuadernos'' (Spanish: ''Notebooks'') was a Spanish-language magazine that was published in Paris, France, in the period 1953–1965. Its full title was ''Cuadernos del Congreso por la Libertad de la Cultura''. It was one of the publications of ...

, Hemisférica y Decimonónica, Revista Horizontum and

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. She won the 2016 State of San Luis Potosí Prize for Journalism. In 2021 she was named by '' Granta'' magazine as one of the best young writers in the

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. She studied literature at the Colegio de San Luis A.C. in Mexico, and co-founded the publishing house Sualos/Swallows.

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