Milena Solot was born in Mexico City and now lives in San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato. She has been published in Asymptote, Words Without Borders, and Casa del Tiempo, among others. In 2014, she received a Young Creators' grant from the State Institute for Culture and the Arts. Her first work of fiction, a collection of short stories entitled A Possible Place, attempts to raise a number of questions in relation to identity and the deeply politicized environment of her country of birth. The collection also explores alternative narrative forms, incorporating a variety of voices and viewpoints. She is presently working on a novel, a satire with a female protagonist, set in Mexico City in the 1930s, for which she has been awarded the Jóvenes Creadores grant by FONCA—the National Institution of Art and Culture.