Mariana Enriquez

Mariana Enríquez (born 1973) is an Argentine journalist, novelist, and short story writer. She is a part of the group of writers known as the "new Argentine narrative". Her short stories fall within the horror and Latin American Gothic genres and have been published in international magazines such as Granta, Electric Literature, Asymptote, McSweeney's, Virginia Quarterly Review, and The New Yorker. Her fictional works include the short story collection Things We Lost in the Fire (2016), which received the 2017 Premio Ciutat de Barcelona in the category of Literature in Spanish; and the novel Our Share of Night (2019), for which she won the 2019 Premio Herralde de Novela, the 2019 Premio Celsius, the 2022 Grand prix de l'Imaginaire, 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 (Ediciones UDP, 2020). In 2025, she released Somebody is Walking on Your Grave, a nonfiction collection of short essays and anecdotes about her visits to graveyards around the world.