Martha Batiz was born and raised in Mexico City, but has been living in Toronto since 2003. Her articles, chronicles, reviews and short stories have appeared in diverse newspapers and magazines not only in her homeland, but also in Spain, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, Peru, Ireland, England, the United States and Canada.  She’s the author of two short-story collections: A todos los voy a matar (I’m Going To Kill Them All, Castillo Press, Mexico, 2000), and De tránsito (In Transit, Terranova Editores, Puerto Rico, 2014). Her award-winning novella The Wolf’s Mouth (Exile Editions, 2009) was originally published in Spanish both in the Dominican Republic and in Mexico (Boca de lobo, in 2007 and 2008, respectively), and was launched as an ebook by INK Press in the summer of 2015. It appeared in the spring of 2018 in its French translation as La Gueule du Loup (Lugar Común Editorial), and was released released again in its English version in November 2018 as Damiana’s Reprieve (Exile Editions). Her latest short-story collection, Plaza Requiem: Stories at the Edge of Ordinary Lives (Exile Editions, 2017), was the sole nominee for the 2018 International Latino Book Award in the category of “Best Popular Fiction: English.” In 2014, Martha was featured in Latinos Magazine among the Top Ten Most Successful Mexicans in Canada. In 2015, she was chosen as one of the Top Ten Most Influential Hispanic-Canadians.