Brenda Navarro participated in the Iowa International Writing Program. Her first novel, Casas vacías (2018; Empty Houses, 2021), won the Tigre Juan Award and the English PEN translation award. Her second novel, Ceniza en la boca (2022) won the Cálamo Prize, the Madrid Booksellers Association Prize, a Todos Tus Libros Prize, and the San Clemente Literary Prize, and was a finalist for the 2022 Vargas Llosa Biennial Prize. She is from Mexico City and lives in Madrid.