About Marina Azahua
Marina has been an inveterate traveler since childhood and grew up crossing borders. She wrote the books Ausencia compartida and Retrato involuntario. El acto fotográfico como forma de violencia. Together with Astrid López Méndez, César Tejeda, Isabel Zapata, and Jazmina Barrera, she founded the independent Mexican publishing house Ediciones Antílope in 2015. She lives in Mexico, where she edits books and writes.
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