Gabriela Etcheverry is an author and cultural promoter of Chilean origin. She holds a doctorate from the Université Laval in Quebec and two Master degrees (Comparative Literature and Spanish) from Carleton University in Ottawa where she taught courses in Spanish language and literature and in Latin-American culture and civilization. In 2007, Gabriela published her novel Latitudes, and in 2010 she published Añañuca, a book of fairy tales. In 2008, one of the short stories in her collection Tú y yo won first prize in the short story competition Nuestra Palabra and was published in Cuentos de nuestra palabra en Canadá in 2009. Excerpts from her novels Guayacán: tesoro y lujuria, Alejandra, and El regreso have been published electronically, as well as a selection from her book El árbol del pan y otros cuentos. Herstories and poems have appeared in several literary magazines, as well as in other cultural publications.