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Isabel Lachenauer, who uses the pen name Isabel Cañas, is a Mexican-American fiction author known for her supernatural, speculative fiction novels inspired by Mexican history. She has published the novels The Hacienda and Vampires of El Norte.[1][2]
Biography
[edit]Born on November 8, 1990, Cañas attended the University of St. Andrews where she graduated in 2013 with an MA with Honors in Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies.[3][4] In 2014, she earned a MSc in Advanced Arabic from the University of Edinburgh. She has also been a Summer Fellow for the American Research Institute in Turkey at Boğaziçi University, a Turkish Foreign Language Scholar, and an Area Studies Scholar for Persian. She has a PhD in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations from the University of Chicago where her research studied 13th-15th century Anatolian (also known as Asia Minor) literature, specifically focusing on gender and emotion.[5][6] In 2017, she completed her Masters thesis entitled That Full Moon Took the Javelin into Her Hand: Warrior Women and Gender in Yūsf-i Meddāḥ's Varqa ve Gülşāh.[7]
She has lived in Mexico, Scotland, Egypt, Turkey, and New York City before ultimately settling down in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.[8]
Fiction Writing Career
[edit]On May 3, 2022, Cañas published her debut novel The Hacienda with Berkley Books (now an imprint of the Penguin Group).[9] The book takes place in the aftermath of the Mexican War of Independence and follows newly married Beatriz as she and a young priest battle the supernatural forces that haunt her new home.[10] It received critical acclaim both for its creative narrative and its incorporation of themes surrounding class, social status, ethnicity, colonialism, and Mexican history and culture.[11] [12] It was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel (2022), the Goodreads Choice Awards for Best Horror (2022) and Best Debut Novel (2022), the American Library Association Alex Award (2023), and the Locus Award for First Novel (2023).[13][14][15][16]
In 2023, she published Vampires of El Norte. The book's main characters, Nena and Néstor, must survive American soldiers during the Mexican-American War and new strange creatures (vampires) as they fight for their forbidden romance, barred by class and social status. Cañas received praise for her narrative writing style once again and for her combination of horror, romance, and historical fiction.[17] The book was nominated for the Goodreads Choice Award for Horror (2023) and the Locus Award for Horror Novel (2024).[18][19]
She has credited her historical studies with giving her a critical eye for the past and for the manner in which history is written, saying, "This especially informs my fiction work, which replaces colonial narratives with the voices of those whom history has otherwise erased."[20]
Works
[edit]Fiction Novels
[edit]- The Hacienda (2022)
- Vampires of El Norte (2023)
- ^ "The Hacienda". Goodreads. Retrieved July 31, 2024.
- ^ "Isabel Lachenauer". The University of Chicago. Retrieved July 31, 2024.
- ^ Cañas, Isabel. "I'm 31 today. Happy birthday to me—this office is the best gift a writer could ask for!!". Facebook. Retrieved July 31, 2024.
- ^ "Isabel Lachenauer". The University of Chicago. Retrieved July 31, 2024.
- ^ "Isabel Cañas". Penguin Random House. Retrieved July 31, 2024.
- ^ "Isabel Lachenauer". Academia. Retrieved July 31, 2024.
- ^ Lachenauer, Isabel. "That Full Moon Took the Javelin into Her Hand: Warrior Women and Gender in Yūsuf-i Meddāḥ's Varqa ve Gülşāh". Academia. Retrieved July 31, 2024.
- ^ "Isabel Cañas". Penguin Random House. Retrieved July 31, 2024.
- ^ Cañas, Isabel. "The Hacienda". Penguin Random House. Retrieved July 31, 2024.
- ^ "The Hacienda". Penguin Random House. Retrieved July 31, 2024.
- ^ "Romance, terror, and the supernatural in Isabel Cañas' debut novel 'The Hacienda'". NPR. Retrieved July 31, 2024.
- ^ "Isabel Cañas". National Endowment for the Arts. Retrieved July 31, 2024.
- ^ "2022 Bram Stoker Award Winners and Nominees". Chicago Public Library. Retrieved July 31, 2024.
- ^ "The Hacienda". Goodreads. Retrieved July 31, 2024.
- ^ "2023 Nominated List". American Library Association. Retrieved July 31, 2024.
- ^ "2023 Locus Awards Winners". Locus Magazine. Retrieved July 31, 2024.
- ^ "Vampires of El Norte". Penguin Random House. Retrieved July 31, 2024.
- ^ "Vampires of El Norte". Goodreads. Retrieved July 31, 2024.
- ^ "2024 Locus Awards Winners". Locus Magazine. Retrieved July 31, 2024.
- ^ "Becoming a writer". University of St. Andrews. Retrieved July 31, 2024.