Silvia Moreno-Garcia s-a nascut in 1981, in Mexic, si a studiat la University of British Columbia. A debutat cu Signal to Noise (2015), rasplatit cu Copper Cylinder Adult Award. Au urmat: Certain Dark Things (2016), The Beautiful Ones (2017), Gods of Jade and Shadow (2019), castigator al premiilor Nebula si Locus, Mexican Gothic (2020; Armada, 2021), nominalizat la Nebula si Bram Stoker, Untamed Shore (2020) si Velvet Was the Night (2021). De un mare succes s-au bucurat si culegerile sale de povestiri science-fiction si horror: This Strange Way of Dying (2013), Other Lives (2013) si Love and Other Poisons (2014). Impreuna cu Paula R. Stiles a infiintat, in 2009, Innsmouth Press unde cele doua au publicat She Walks in Shadows (2015), o antologie de povestiri de groaza scrise de femei care a castigat World Fantasy Award. Din 2019, are o rubrica permanenta in The Washington Post.