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Malena Salazar Maciá (1988, Havana, Cuba). Fantasy and science fiction writer, she is the author of the novels La ira de los sobrevivientes (2021, Editorial Gente Nueva, Cuba), Aliento de Dragón (2021, Enlace Editorial, Colombia), and Los errantes (2022, Últimos Monstruos Editores, Rep. Dominicana), among others. Her texts have been collected in both national and foreign anthologies. English translations of her stories have appeared in Clarkesworld, Mithila Review, and Dark Matter Magazine. Her work has also been translated into Croatian, German, Italian, and Japanese.


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