They Will Dream in the Garden
2023 Shirley Jackson Award Winner
Best Collection
In
They Will
Dream in the Gardena
territory characterized by its great contrasts, from violence and
activism to affectionate and communal resistance: flowers that arise
from the earth to expand the cosmic consciousness of those who take
it, nuns who create artifacts so that their native languages do not
perish, a memorial for the victims of femicide that the State
controls, but whose old guardian wants to turn into a laboratory to
return their lost future…
They Will Dream in the Garden shows the journey that its author has undertaken towards a more conscious writing that, through wonder and beauty, trusts in the possibilities that literature offers to unite, question, and transform our being in the world.
Mexico City native Gabriela Damián Miravete writes fiction and essays that have been translated to English, Italian, Portuguese, French, and published in A Larger Reality/Una realidad más amplia (part of the Hugo Award Finalist project The Mexicanx Initiative Scrapbook), Boundaries & Bridges: The Wiscon Chronicles Vol. 12 (Aqueduct Press) and the World Fantasy Award Finalist anthology Three Messages and a Warning: Contemporary Mexican Short Stories of the Fantastic (formerly James Tiptree, Jr. Award) for the short story “They Will Dream in the Garden”. She loves working in collaborative projects such as the art & science collective Cúmulo de Tesla and Mexicona: Imaginación y Futuro, a speculative fiction literary festival in Spanish. Gabriela spends (maybe too much) time listening to rocks, whales, and what Fellini and Chewbacca, her two cats, have to say about life on planet Earth.
