Lorena Salazar Masso

She is a publicist and writer, with a master's degree in narrative from the Madrid School of Writers. This Wound Full of Fish, her first novel has been translated into twelve languages. Maldeniña, her second novel, was published in Colombia, Spain and Argentina. She has published other texts in different journals:  Julia Escondida y otras mujeres, El malpensante; Hermano mayor, Gaceta; Bella a las once, La Maleta maleta de Portbou. El malpensante; Hermano mayor, Gaceta; Bella a las once, La; Niñas conejo, Casapaís; Missy y Huevos al desayuno, La Rompedora. She teaches at the School of Writers in Madrid. She works and writes from Medellín.

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Elaine Vilar Madruga

(Havana, 1989)

A narrator, poet and playwright, winner of more than a hundred awards, she is one of the most important literary voices in Cuba and the Caribbean today. Her texts address the individual politics of the body, gender and dissidence, and the politics related to the recent history of her country in contexts of oppression, silence and claustrophobia. She cultivates the genres of novel, short story, poetry, fantasy and science fiction literature, journalism, criticism, theater, literature for children and young people. El cielo de la selva it won the Nollegiu Award for the best novel of the year in Spanish. It was chosen among the ten best books2023 by Babelia, from El País. 

Álvaro Bisama

(Valparaiso, 1975) 

He is a writer and professor of literature, master in Latin American studies from the University of Chile, and PhD in literature from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. Among his published novels are Caja negra, Dead Stars, Ruido, El brujo y Laguna; in addition to the volumes of essays and chronicles Cien libros chilenos, Televisión and Deslizamientos, and the books of short stories Death Metal, Los muertos and Cuando éramos hombres lobo. In 2020, Alfaguara edited Mala lengua, a biographical chronicle about the life of the poet Paul of Rokha. He has won the Municipal Prize for Literature and the Academy Prize (awarded by the Chilean Academy of Language) for Dead stars, as well as the Award for the Best Literary Work in the novel genre for Ruido (2013) and Mala lengua (2021). His most recent book is La rabia y el augurio. A biographical essay on Carlos Droguett (Ediciones UDP, 2023). He is currently the director of the School of Creative Literature at the Diego Portales University.
 

Vanessa Rosales

She is a Latin American writer and thinker whose work is located at the intersection between fashion, feminism, aesthetics and cultural history. Her voice, deeply essayistic and critical, has renewed the thinking about fashion as a form of knowledge and expression of power. Her work combines historical perspective, the study of the 'feminine', critical theory and an intense look at the visual from the cultural point of view. 
Author of  Mujeres Vestidas (2017), Mujer incómoda (2021), and Mad Men (2024), Rosales has been a pioneer in the use of fashion, style and aesthetics as lenses to analyze the history of the 'feminine', the 'masculine', the philosophy of appearances, the expressions of music and culture. Her work has been published in media such as Refinery 29, Vogue Latin America, The Business of Fashion, Vestoj, BBC World, El Malpensante and The Daily Beast.
She trained as a historian at the Universidad de los Andes, studied a master's degree in journalism (La Nación + Universidad Torcuato Di Tella) and then obtained a master's degree in Fashion Studies at Parsons The New School for Design, where she received the Dean's Scholarship.
In her career she has combined teaching, disobedient academy, critical writing and sound creation: she is the voice behind the podcast Mujer Incómoda, where she fuses aesthetic sensitivity and intellectual gaze. She also made the podcast Popularmente and Nación Moda. She has been resident critic at the School of Visual Arts (New York) and creator of the first diploma in critical fashion studies in Colombia.
She is currently developing Gazing, an editorial platform and video podcast about style, culture and gaze.
 

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