Born
in Cartagena, Colombia, in 1966. Her childhood and youth are
materialized between the magical and romantic Caribbean that watched her
dreaming while she was growing up, and the misty mountainous Andes that
embraced her until she relocated to the US, where she added to her
academic formation as an Anthropologist with a Master's degree in
Political Science from The Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, a second
Master's degree in International Relations from The George Washington
University in Washington DC.
Her passion for writing begins at a
very young age and is reflected through the dozens of journals she
wrote, when her need to put on paper all her questions and concerns
about life and the reality that surrounded her, became stronger than
anything else. Later on as an adult back in Colombia, her alma mater
offers her the opportunity to train herself as an editor in chief
through many of the publications belonging to renowned university
professors, acquiring so the discipline and focus she needed before
feeling herself confident enough to start writing her own creations. In
spite of her university degrees and diplomas, many of her questions kept
half-answered as a result of the logical and rational explanations that
were the only ones at hand within the academic context in which she was
searching. One day, she changes the environment where nothing seems to
be enough when she decides to jump out of her fish tank. Tired of being
the observed, she wanted to become the observer of a world she had never
even considered possible. Once outside, she gets to meet her true self
and the expansive truth that finally brings peace to her willing soul.
Today she writes about that leap, about what is like to be living on
that 'other side'.
A multicultural, empathic and adaptable human
being, fascinated with the diversity of hats one can wear linearly and
simultaneously within this dual universe. Throughout this lifetime
filled with contrast, she has lived in Bogotá, Washington DC, Miami,
Sedona, Houston, London and New Orleans. Her most notorious roles define
her as a student and a teacher, a daughter and a mother, an employee
and a boss, as single and married, as divorced and widowed, as a sick
patient and a healer... What else could a writer ask for! Nevertheless,
these are only roles. The best way to describe her is as a faithful
lover. She is truly in love with the life she writes about, the one she
describes to all men, women and youngsters that become a part of her
reality once they include her as part of theirs.