Inés Arredondo, born in 1928 in Culiacan, Sinoloa, Mexico, studied drama at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, and was a fellow at the Centro Mexicano de Escritores. She has taught at Indiana University, and lived in Montevideo from 1963 to 1964. In 1965 she published La senal, of which ”Mariana” is a selection. In 1979 she won the prestigious Villaurrutia Prize for fiction with her second book of short stories, Rio subterraneo, published by Joaquin Mortiz. She now lives in Mexico.