Claudia Amador

She is a professional in literary studies from the Autonomous University of Bucaramanga. Writer, workshop facilitator and bookseller. Her short stories have been published in Spain, Uruguay, Mexico and Colombia, in anthologies such as Rituales para una piedra sangrante: antología de folk horror colombiano; Contaminación futura Vol. 10; Fisura: a antología colombiana de ficción extraña, Las ciclistas: antología fantástica de autoras colombianas and five versions of the anthology of short stories from the Mirabilia Competition of Science Fiction.
She was the winner of the 15th International Short Story Contest Ciudad de Pupiales 2020 and the Relata 2022 contest. In 2023 she launched Macrored, her first book thanks to the grant for the publication of unpublished work of the National Stimulus Program of the Ministry of Culture. In 2024 she was the winner of the Elisa Mújica National Narrative Award, with Altasangre.

Daniel Alarcón

He is a novelist, journalist and executive producer of Radio Ambulante Studios, a sound journalism outlet that he co-founded in 2012. His books, including novels Lost City Radio (2007), At Night We Walk in Circles (2013), have been translated into more than fifteen languages. 
He has collaborated with the American magazine The New Yorker since 2003, and since 2014 he has been a professor at the Columbia University School of Journalism in New York.

Other activities involving the participant:

Literature by the ear

Eugenia Ladra

(Montevideo,1992) 

Es licenciada en comunicación y magíster en creación literaria por la Universidad Pompeu Fabra de Barcelona. Publicó el libro álbum Ramona y Ramiro (2017) y los plaquettes de cuentos La naturaleza de la muerte (2019) y El espacio podría sonar así (2020). Su cuento “Leche” forma parte de la antología Nuevas emergencias (2023). Carnada, su primera novela, fue finalista del Premio IESS de Italia y ha sido publicada en Uruguay y Argentina por Criatura Editora; en España, por Tránsito y en Bolivia por Parc. En 2025 recibió el Premio Bartolomé Hidalgo en la categoría Revelación de Ficción.
 

Other activities involving the participant:

Uruguayan fiction territories from Onetti’s Santa María

Claudia Neira Bermúdez

She has been the director of the Central America Festival since 2015, where she also coordinates the content curation. She combines her cultural management work with her experience in strategic communication and public relations.
Previously, she worked as an editor in media in Nicaragua; as a communication expert in the United States and Nicaragua, where she founded, in 2005, Crea Comunicaciones.

She holds a master's degree in strategic communication and public relations at Marshall University, West Virginia, United States. She is a fellow from the V class of the Central American Leadership Initiative (CALI, associated with the Aspen Institute). She has been a mentor at Voces Vitales and has been part of various cultural, business and leadership initiatives in Central America.

Nicaraguan born in Brazil, to a Peruvian father and a Nicaraguan mother. Since 2022, she has lived in Madrid.

Other activities involving the participant:

The Pleasure of Reading Gala
Central America in Mexico, and Mexico in Central America: a literary round trip