About

I’m Raquel Bada, an editor, publisher, and cultural journalist devoted to recovering and celebrating women’s voices in literature. As the founder and editorial director of Bamba Editorial, I specialize in reissuing works by women authors—rescuing forgotten texts, preserving their legacy, and giving them a new, carefully crafted life.

I have a profound love for analogue formats—the texture of paper, the scent of ink, the silence that surrounds a printed page. For me, editing is not just about content, but about material presence: how a book feels in your hands, how it inhabits a shelf, how it ages. Each reedition is an opportunity to care for a voice, to imagine how that voice can speak again in the present.

My work is as much about preservation as it is about projection—finding ways for these books to survive, to resonate, and to reclaim their space in today’s literary landscape. I think of each edition as a bridge: between past and present, between author and reader, between what was overlooked and what now demands attention.

Through Bamba, I’ve revived works by authors like Elena Quiroga, Sylvia Plath, Ana María Moix, Elena Garro, Hilda Doolittle Zelda Fitzgerald, or María Luisa Bombal, designing each book to reflect the essence of the text while offering it to readers with fresh clarity and purpose.

Outside the editorial world, I write for publications such as Publishers Weekly, Telva or Condé Nast, where My writing blends research and intuition, always looking for the thread that connects personal memory with collective meaning.

Explore my published columns, interviews, and feature stories here

What drives me is the conviction that editing is a form of cultural care. I believe in the power of books not only to endure, but to return—to take their place, once again, at the center of the conversation.