Liliana V. Blum was born in Durango, Mexico. She is the author of The Curse of Eve and Other Stories, forthcoming from Host Publications. English translations of her stories have appeared in various literary journals, including Eclectica, Mslexia, storySouth, Blackbird, and "The Dirty Goat.” She received her bachelor's degree in Comparative Literature from the University of Kansas and her master's degree from Tec de Monterey. Blum has lived in Ciudad Madero, Tamaulipas since 1997. In 2005, Her story "Kisses on the Forehead" was selected for storySouth's Million Writers Award Notable Stories.

Liliana Blum (Mexico, 19xx) is not one of those women who refuse to reveal their date of birth; she just likes coincidences. So that she was born the same year that Heinrich Böll’s The lost honor of Katharina Blum was published, is a great one. Liliana is a ginger who suffered through her childhood from that old Mexican pinch-the-redhead-in-the-arm-for-luck belief. She was born in Durango (famous for its scorpions, revolutionaries and narcos). She's the author of the short story collections La maldición de Eva (2003), ¿En qué se nos fue la mañana? (2006), Vidas de catálogo (2007), The curse of Eve and other stories (2008), El libro perdido de Heinrich Böll (2008), Yo sé cuándo expira la leche (2011), and No me pases de largo (2013). The Betsy Escribe Aqui Iberoamerican Festival