Liliana Heker was born in 1943 in Buenos Aires. Before becoming a writer, Heker studied physics, which enhanced her love of exploring consciousness, reality, and the relativity of time and space in her stories. At the age of 17, Heker sent a letter and an original poem to Abelardo Castillo, a prominent Argentinian writer and editor of the literary magazine El Grillo de Papel. While he told her the poem was bad, he also said that he believed from her letter that she was a writer, and he invited her to join the magazine. By Heker's account, she was one of the youngest writers in these group meetings with Castillo, and she was the only female.
Heker went on to found and run several...
