Christopher Peña

Mexican author whose work navigates the literature of collapse. Finalist for the Amazon Storyteller Award with The Dislocation of Desires (2022) and third place nationally with his essay The Oneiric Democratization in Mexico (2003), he has published the novel What We Have Lost (2025) with the publishing house of the Autonomous University of the State of Sinaloa, and has self-published: The Skin of Madness (2014), That Brief Space (2014), The Storm Hunter (2014), Loneliness Screaming (2022), A Family Crime (2023), Death and Time (2024), The Shadow (2024), The Girl Who Played Football (2025).

He has taken part in programs organized by INBAL, such as “I Read, Therefore I Am,” where professional actors from theatre, film, and television read excerpts from his novels or full stories to audiences at book fairs. His writing is known for its emotional intensity, symbolic depth, and its exploration of guilt, desire, and failure.

https://www.chrispa8.com

 

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