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I believe every creative impulse craves for a particular shape and form. It’s a matter of listening to the silence that communicates and then offering something back. It’s a continuous process. Like a heartbeat. Here’s the result of my own receptive and creative process. Here’s my Fiction and Non-Fiction work.

**July 2021**
**218 pages**
**katakana editores**
**Translation by Robin Myers**

The Animal Days

July 14, 2021

A woman’s story of movement as a both a lifestyle and a rite of passage, The Animal Days follows Julia’s journey of love and rock-climbing across three continents. In this fast-paced novel, joy is linked to self-destruction, love is inseparable from death, freedom is twinned with unbearable solitude, and life is worth only as much as a given moment. The taste for risk and vertigo never stop: they feed each other as the abyss approaches. Julia, determined to never look back, lives perpetually on the brink, even if it means shedding her own skin in the process.

**June 2016**
**218 pages**
**Oscar Todtmann editores**

Los días animales

June 3, 2016

Best Novel Drama Adventure International Latino Book Award 2018

This is the story of a woman searching for her own limits, a woman who initially appears to find fulfillment in pain and misfortune—but who ultimately achieves, in the course of her uprooting, an inner peace that may be either solid or very fragile (novels don’t tell us everything). Traveling half the world over, Keila Vall narrates an itinerary that is an adventure, a travel chronicle, and a metaphor for discovery: a journey through the essential things that have been deep inside us all along, but which we must spend a long time seeking before we can find, recognize, and accept them.