Daniel Saldaña París is a writer, editor, and translator based in Mexico City. His writing has been supported by fellowships and residencies in Mexico, Argentina, Canada, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States. More recently, he was a Cullman fellow at the New York Public Library (2022-2023). He has translated the work of Francisco Goldman, Nellie Bly, Valeria Luiselli, Jon Lee Anderson, Ocean Vuong and Bryan Washington into Spanish. In 2017, he was included in Bogotá39, a list of outstanding Latin American writers under 40. His critically acclaimed essay collection, Planes Flying over a Monster was published last year by Catapult Press. In April 2025, his short story “Rosaura at Dawn” won the 2025 O’ Henry Prize of Short Fiction. Saldaña París’s third novel, The Dance and the Fire was a finalist for the Herralde prize in 2021. Christina McSweeney’s translation of the novel was published in July 2025, also by Catapult.
