Maria del Mar Ramon Velez
María del Mar Ramón, born in Bogotá in 1992, is the author of the novels La memoria es un animal esquivo (ADN, 2026), Todo muere salvo el mar (Seix Barral, 2023), and La Manada (Planeta, 2022), as well as the essay collection Coger y comer sin culpa, el placer es feminista (Planeta, 2019). Her books have been published throughout Latin America and Spain. She was a columnist for VICE and writes essays for outlets such as El País, ElDiarioAr, Playboy, Periódico de Poesía UNAM, Volcánicas, LatFem, Página 12, and El Grito del Sur. Her short story El deseo es una cicatriz was included in the anthology Cuerpos (Seix Barral, 2019). In 2024, she launched the podcast Los guardianes de la espada, which the Gabo Foundation selected as one of the ten best audio projects of the year.