Layla Martínez

Editor and writer

She is editor of the independent imprint Levanta Fuego. She has published the essay Utopía no es una isla  (Episkaia, 2020), on the need to recover the utopian impulse on the left, and the novel Carcoma (Amor de Madre, 2021), translated into eight languages.

She has given workshops on the role of monsters in Western culture and on female archetypes of evil. Furthermore, she has also coordinated film series on social horror and utopia in cinema. She is currently working on her second novel.

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