Education
She studied Hispanic literature at the Universidad de Sonora and began her career as a teacher, and she still teaches classes at the Instituto Tecnologico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey in creative writing.
She studied Hispanic literature at the Universidad de Sonora and began her career as a teacher, and she still teaches classes at the Instituto Tecnologico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey in creative writing.
She learned to write through workshops given by other authors such as Abrigael Bohórquez, Héctor Manjarrez, David Martín del Cammpo and Cristina Rivera-Garza. Sylvia Aguilar Zéleny is a fiction writer, translator, and professor at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). She teaches English Composition courses at the El Paso Community College (EPCC), and Creative Writing and Translation courses at UTEP. She has published five books of fiction in Mexico, and a young adult series titled Coming Out in the United States.
She bikes, knits, and believes in green tea.
Her cat"s name is Nimona.