CLYO MENDOZA (Oaxaca, Mexico, 1993) is a poet and novelist. She is the author of the poetry collection Anamnesis (2016); the novel Fury (2024), which was awarded the Premio Javier Morote by the Confederaci n Espanola de Gremios y Asociaciones de Libreros and the Amazon Premio Primera Novela; and Silence (2026) was awarded the Premio Internacional de Poesia Sor Juan Ines de la Cruz. She has contributed to numerous poetry anthologies, including Poetas parricidas (Cuadrivio, 2014), Los reyes Subterraneos- Veinte poetas j venes de Mexico (La Bella Varsovia, 2015), and Liberoamericanas- 80 poetas contemporaneas (Liberoamerica, 2018). Mendoza is the recipient of scholarships from the Mexican Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes and the Fundaci n Antonio Gala, in C rdoba, Spain. She has also collaborated on various transdisciplinary projects and experiments with painting, photography, and sound collage.
""I will never forget the experience of reading Clyo Mendoza’s work for the first time. Few writers can pack so much mystery, heart, and truth into a single sentence. Silencio is not just a book but a spell—one you want to fall under."" —Daniel Saldaña Paris, author of Planes Flying Over a Monster