Alcina Lubitch Domecq

Who is Alcina Lubitch Domecq?

Alcina Lubitch Domecq is a Jewish Guatemalan short story writer. She was born in Guatemala to an Auschwitz survivor father, and an Iberian-Guatemalan mother. After her parents' divorce, she moved to Mexico in the sixties and left in the early 1970s. After a stay in Europe, she made aliyah to Israel where she now works as a janitor in a Haifa hospital. Her works include The Mirror's Mirror: or, The Noble Smile of the Dog and Intoxicada; she has had short stories, focusing mainly on the Jewish condition, published in many anthologies.