Daniel Saldaña París (born 1984) is a Mexican poet, essayist, and novelist. He is the author of four novels—Among Strange Victims, Ramifications, The Dance and the Wildfire, and My Father’s Names—and a collection of personal essays, Planes Flying Over a Monster. Retrieved 09-29-2026.
Career Daniel Saldaña París gained acclaim for his debut novel En medio de extrañas víctimas (2013) and its follow-up El nervio principal (2018), published in English as Among Strange Victims (2016) and Ramifications (2020) by Charco Press and Coffee House Press.
He has also published volumes of poetry. In 2015, he was included in the anthology México20: New Voices, Old Traditions (Pushkin Press), celebrating the best young Mexican writers. In 2017, he was chosen as one of the Bogotá39, a selection of the best young Latin American writers under 40.
He is the recipient of fellowships and residencies from the Banff Center for the Arts, the Latin American Art Museum of Buenos Aires, Art Omi, and MacDowell, he has been awarded the Eccles Center & Hay Festival Writers Award in the U.K., and his latest novel was a finalist for the Herralde Prize in 2021.
From 2022-2023, he was a fellow at the Cullman Center for Writers and Scholars of the New York Public Library.
His essay collection, Planes Flying over a Monster, was published by Catapult in 2024. It was translated by Christina MacSweeney and Philip K. Zimmerman. The book was a finalist for the 2025 PEN Translation Prize. Retrieved 09-29-2026.
He is a 2026 recipient of a Borchard Foundation Literary Fellowship. Retrieved 09-29-2026.
Personal life As of 2024, he is married to the writer Catherine Lacey. The couple live in Mexico City. Retrieved 2026-09-29.
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