Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Silvia Moreno-Garcia (born April 25, 1981) is a Canadian novelist, short story writer, editor, and publisher.

Quotes

• I don’t think many people realize what it’s like to be a maid, what it’s like to be poor, and to literally have zero opportunities in life. My great-grandmother was always depending on family taking her in. When she was depressed, she referred to herself as an “arrimada,” which is hard to translate but it’s almost like saying a parasite. She thought she was nothing, a parasite…
  • On basing one of her characters on her great-grandmother in “Interview: Silvia Moreno-Garcia” in Light Speed Magazine (Aug 2019)

• Telling is a component of many cultures and it’s certainly present in many classics of Latin American literature. Modern American literature doesn’t seem to value telling as much as it once did or as much as other cultures still do. It’s seen as a sign of gracelessness. But of course, folklore is spoken, and there are benefits of telling rather than showing…
  • On using a “telling” story device in “Interview: Silvia Moreno-Garcia” in Light Speed Magazine (Aug 2019)

• Thematically, I like to write quiet stories. I’m not a bang-bang kind of writer. I love, love Shirley Jackson. Stuff that is slow and builds up layer by layer. Sometimes my mother makes fun of me because of that. She’d rather that I have more shooting and spaceships going woooosh.
  • On the type of writing she prefers in “Interview—Silvia Moreno-Garcia” in Elder Sign Press

• People love to classify things as black and white, good or bad, but I’ve seldom met any one who can be neatly defined and classified…
  • On the grayness of her characters in http://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/author-spotlight-silvia-moreno-garcia/ “Author Spotlight: Silvia Moreno-Garcia”] in Nightmare Magazine (Nov 2015)