I was born in Viña del Mar, Chile but have lived abroad, mostly in the United States, longer than in Chile. I have now lived for close to five years in the United Kingdom.

There is yet another culture that has made me who I am, which is the culture of Italy. I fell in love with things Italian when I was a little girl and my mother would tell me about the terraces of Purgatory in Dante’s Divina Commedia. As a young undergraduate, I took a Divine Comedy course in translation at the Newberry library in Chicago and I enjoyed it so much that I embarked on learning Dante’s Tuscan language, which is now part of my life.

These experiences in various parts of the world have given me different and fresh perspectives about people’s behaviors, desires, and ways of being in general.

I began writing very young and completed a novel in my teens. I am very fond of it because it was completely hand written in blue ink on notebook paper. I wish I knew where it went.

In 1992, I published my first collection of stories, Karma desde el mar, which helped me navigate the waters of literature. When I look back at the stories that I wrote then, I realize that many of those writings are part of that first hand written novel.

In 2004, I published my first novel, Bailemos cuando den las diez. It took me ten years to realize that enterprise because of continuous changes to the way in which the protagonist evolved. I began it in 1994, while I was staying in Durham, North Carolina and I ended it in Appleton, Wisconsin. The name of the protagonist is Inés.

My first play, Man of La Moneda, is available at amazon.com. A dramatic political event took place on Tuesday, 11th September 1973. Salvador Allende Gossens was overthrown by a violent coup d’état. Allende’s truncated presidency contains all the right ingredients for drama: idealism, betrayal, love, hate, joy, pain, and death. In Man of La Moneda, there is a desire to understand my country, my peers, myself and my circumstances.

I love literature and admire all authors who commit themselves to paper. Among my heroes, Miguel de Cervantes, Niccolò Machiavelli, Alberto Blest Gana, Violeta Parra, and María Luisa Bombal stand out.