Claudia Peña Claros

Claudia Peña Claros (Bolivia, 1970) is a poet, fiction writer, and essayist. She has published the short story collections El evangelio según Paulina and Que mamá no nos vea; the poetry collections Inútil ardor and Con el cielo a mis espaldas; and the novel La furia del río. In 2016, she won Bolivia’s Franz Tamayo National Short Fiction Contest. One of her stories, “Verde,” was made into a film by director Rodrigo Bellot. (Photo credit: Vero Mendizábal)