Mexican writer Guadalupe Nettel (b. 1973) is the author of award-winning novels and collections of short stories translated into more than twenty languages. Her work has been adapted for theater and film. Still Born, her most recent novel, was a finalist for the International Booker Prize.

In 2008 Nettel received a PhD in literature from the EHESS in Paris. She’s been the editor of cultural and literary magazines such as Número Cero and Revista de la Universidad de México.

In April 2025 Bloomsbury published The Accidentals, Nettel’s new collection of short stories translated by Rosalind Harvey, simultaneously in the United Kingdom and the United States (see WLT, May 2025). She lives in Paris as a writer in residence at Columbia University’s Center for Ideas and Imagination.