Books

Cuentos de desencuentro y otros, Letras Nuevas, SEP-CREA, México, 1986.
A collection of seventeen short stories.

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Nicolasa y los encajes, Joaquín Mortiz, serie del volador, México, 1991, reeditado por Lectorum, México, 1999.
A collection of 20 short stories where small every day life dramas are seen with a keenness for detail.

Tonada de un viejo amor (novel), Selector, México, 1996. Publicada nuevamente en 2002 bajo el sello editorial Plaza&Janés.
The scenario of this novel are the wine growing exhaciendas of the North of Mexico in the forties where the forbidden love of uncle and niece takes place.

La más faulera (novela para adolescentes), Plaza&Janés, México, 1997.
A teen ager and her passion for basquetball are in the center of this novel for young readers.

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Ruby Tuesday no ha muerto, Diana y Difocur del estado de Sinaloa, México, 1998. Premio Nacional de Literatura Gilberto Owen, 1996
Stories that come out of some Rolling Stones songs.

La isla blanca, short stories. Col Marea Alta, Lectorum, México, 1998.

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Cambio de vías, novel. México. Plaza & Janés, 1999.
Two friends repeat the trip they made to Europe before going to college 20 years after. They contrast two different moments of their personal lifes and of the world.

Por sevillanas, colección Literatura mexicana contemporánea ¿Ya LEISSTE?, ISSTE, 2000.
Short stories in four momentos: childhood, adolescence, youth and maturity, according to the four stanzas of the dance.

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Leo luego escribo. Ideas para disfrutar la lectura. Lectorum 2001.
Thoughts around reading and writing combined with classical stories in order to promote and share the pleasure of reading and writing.

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Café cortado. Novel. Plaza&Janés, México, 2001. Premio Narrativa de Colima 2001 para obra publicada.
The quest of Spanish immigrants at the Soconusco area in southern Mexico at the time of the Coffee plantation boom, as told by a Mexican student in Spain at the end of the 20th century. Two spaces and two times. A novel of dreams and decay.

Uno no sabe. Short stories. Plaza&Janés, México, 2003. Finalista del premio Antonin Artaud.
Stories that take place in diverse parts of the world where the unusual in everyday life, love and solitude are in the center.

La línea de la carretera. Novel, Plaza&Janés, México, 2004.
A Mexican teen ager spends the month of October 1968 with a family in Oregon. The novel tells about growing up and seeing herself, her family and country in contrast with the other.

Anthologies

Points of Departure. New short stories from Mexico Monica Lavin, editor. (City Lights, San Francisco, 2000)
Eighteen short stories, translated to English, of Mexican authors born in the 50's and 60's.

Un oceano di mezzo. Nueva narrativa mexicana e italiana. (Stampa Alternativa, Roma, 1998 -en italiano- y Lectorum, México, 1999 -español-)
Dozen stories of Mexican authors and dozen stories of Italian contemporary authors, both in Italian and Spanish. Mónica Lavín is the editor of the Mexican selection.

Others

She has published chronicles on cultural themes like Desde las alturas, Café. Los tiempos del Salón México, Los tiempos del Salón México, Dulces hábitos, Golosinas del convento, Sor Juana y la cocina, "Entremeses yucatecos" en Relatos para disfrutar la comida en Los Almendros.