Eliana Hernández-Pachón

Eliana Hernández-Pachón is a writer and educator from Bogotá, Colombia. She has an M.F. A. in Creative Writing in Spanish from New York University and a Ph.D. in Hispanic Literature from Cornell University. Her book La Mata (in English, The Brush) won the National Award of Poetry in Colombia in 2020. She is  the co-author of Plantas del camino, a book on weeds and healing, and edited the anthology Un florero que se rompe/A Vase that Shatters, which features short stories and poems by members of the Truth Commission of Colombia. She is part of Como un Lugar, a poetry collective that runs an independent press in Buenos Aires and organizes a Latin American poetry festival in NYC.