Adela Fernández y Fernández (6 December 1942 – 18 August 2013) was a Mexican folk writer and teacher of theater. She lived surrounded by stars of the artistic world of her day such as Diego Rivera, Dolores del Río, María Félix and Columba Domínguez, among others. She studied acting and dramaturgy at the Cinematographer Training Center of the Iberoamerican University of Mexico City. Fernández left behind an important bibliography composed of 14 books composed of literature, poetry, anthropology and Mexican history, two short films of experimental cinema, and numerous plays. Gabriel García Márquez has described Fernández's literature as "extremely dark, very sad" and her work Aunt Enedina's Cage as being "among the ten Latin American stories that every person should read."