Writer
Ximena Castillo Vega
Ximena Castillo Vega writes historical literary fiction set in colonial Latin America. Her work explores institutional corruption, cultural genocide, and the persistence of truth through centuries of silence.
About Ximena Castillo Vega
Ximena Castillo Vega excavates the buried records of colonial Latin America, finding in them stories that are both specific and universal. Her fiction moves through the archives of the Inquisition, the courts of the viceroyalty, and the lives of people whose names history almost swallowed.
Her debut novel The Devil’s Testimony is available now.