Mariana Enríquez

Mariana Enríquez (born 1973) is an Argentine journalist, novelist, and short story writer. She is a part of the group of writers known as "new Argentine narrative". Her short stories fall within the horror and gothic genres and have been published in international magazines such as Granta, Electric Literature, Asymptote, McSweeney's, Virginia Quarterly Review, and The New Yorker.

Among her works, the short story collection Things We Lost in the Fire (2016) stands out, which received the Premis Ciutat de Barcelona 2017 in the category of Literature in Spanish, and the novel Our Share of Night (2019), for which she won the Premio Herralde de Novela 2019, the Premio Celsius 2019, the Grand Prix 2022, and others.

In journalism, Enríquez serves as deputy editor of the cultural supplement "Radar" of the Argentine newspaper Página/12. She holds a degree in Journalism and Social Communication from the National University of La Plata. Her work encompasses chronicles, interviews, and essays on popular culture, rock music, literature, and social phenomena, with a style that reflects her interests in the dark, the marginal, and the countercultural. She has collaborated with various publications such as Rolling Stone Argentina, Anfibia, TXT, La Mano, and El Guardián, as well as argentine Radio Nacional. She has compiled part of her journalistic and essayistic work in the volume El otro lado. Retratos, fetichismos, confesiones (2020, Ediciones UDP).