Luis Felipe Lomelí

Luis Felipe Gómez Lomelí (January 10, 1975) is a Mexican writer and poet. Ella sigue de viaje (She travels on – 2005) included the story, El cielo de Neuquén (The sky of Neuquén), winner of the Edmundo Valadés Latin American Short Story Prize. His flash fiction work "El emigrante" (The Migrant), the first story in Ella sigue de viaje, may be the shortest story in the Spanish language. His stories have also appeared in several anthologies. One of them: El cuento del cuento (The Story of the Story), in a Spanish-English bilingual edition. Letras Libres, and Milenio.

In 2011 Lomelí compiled the stories that were published in the third volume of Sólo cuento, a literary project undertaken by the UNAM Directorate of Arts. He made a personal choice that included stories from well-known authors and also from young and relatively unknown writers.

Awards and accolades

Vice Versa National Short Story Award, 2000 San Luis Potosí National Award for best Short Story, 2001, for his collection of short stories Todos santos de California.