Nadia Escalante Andrade was born in 1982 in the Mexican city of Mérida, Yucatán. She has published two books: Adentro no se abre el silencio (Fondo Editorial Tierra Adentro, col. La Ceibita, 2010) and Octubre. Hay un cielo que baja y es el cielo (Textofilia, 2014). She has received grants from the Mexican National Fund for Culture and Arts and the Foundation for Mexican Letters.