(Ecuador, 1974)
She is a social communicator, videographer, translator, cultural manager, teacher, artist and Kichwa Otavalo poet. Award for the best traditional medicine video at the 3rd Abya Yala First Nations Film and Video Festival, organized by the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE, 1999); recognition for a publication in the written testimony category in the Women in Images and Testimonies competition (2000); recognition for a publication for participation in the 1st Continental Biennial of Contemporary Indigenous Arts, Mexico (2013). Organizer of five editions of the Abya Yala Literature Festival The Corn Festival (2011-2016). Organizer of the first Bibliopawkar Indigenous Book Micro-Fair, Peguche (2017). Compiler of poetry anthologies Hatun Taki (2013); Chawpi Pachapi Arawikuna (2015); Ñawpa Pachamanta Purik Rimaykuna (2016). Darío Guevara Mayorga National Prize for Children's Stories (2016) and Jorge Carrera Andrade National Poetry Prize (2021), both awarded by the Municipality of the Metropolitan District of Quito.
Winner of the RAIZ Prize for the production of contemporary art for Ecuadorian artists (2022) with the project Away pacha, City Museums Foundation. She has published the bilingual personal poetry collections Tamyawan Shamukupani, Tujaal Ediciones, (2018) and Kanpa Shimita Yarkachini, Kintirikra Editorial (2021). Participation in the Ibero-American Contemporary Art Biennial of Alcalá de Henares, Spain, 2023. Participation in the collective art show Plants of Power, with the work Aya pampa yura. CCM. 2023-2024. Winner of the Translation scholarship at Casa Looren of Translators in Zurich-Switzerland, 2024. She is currently the coordinator of the initiative Biblioraloteca Cultural Literaria Muyu, in Otavalo, Imbabura, Ecuador, and a professor at the University of the Arts.
Other activities involving the participant:
Tribute to Yana Lucila Lema Otavalo
Presentation of the book from the Miguel León Portilla Collection
FIL Program 
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