Karina Pacheco Medrano (Cusco, Peru, 1969) — writer, anthropologist, and editor — has a PhD in American Anthropology from the Complutense University of Madrid. She is the author of the novels Las orillas del aire (2017); El bosque de tu nombre (2013, 2019); Cabeza y orquídeas (2012), winner of the National Federico Villareal Novel Award in 2010; La sangre, el polvo, la nieve (2010); No olvides nuestros nombres (2009, 2015), winner of the Regional Novel Prize awarded by the National Institute of Culture in Cusco; and La voluntad del molle (2006, 2016). She is also the author of the story collections Lluvia (2018); Miradas. Antología de cuentos (2015); El sendero de los rayos (2013, 2018), winner of El Comercio's Luces y Artes Awards for the best story collection published in 2013; and Alma alga (2010). 

Stories, articles, and essays by her have been published in numerous anthologies and literary magazines in Latin America and Europe. She is the director of Ceques Editores, an independent publisher that specializes in Literature, History, and Anthropology. In her free time, she dedicates herself to mountaineering. 

BY KARINA PACHECO MEDRANO:

El año del viento
NOVEL, 2021
La sangre, el polvo, la nieve
NOVEL, 2010/2021
El bosque de tu nombre
NOVEL, 2013/2019
Lluvia
SHORT STORIES, 2018
Las orillas del aire
NOVEL, 2017
Miradas. Antología de cuentos
SHORT STORIES, 2015
El sendero de los rayos
SHORT STORIES, 2013
Cabeza y orquídeas
NOVEL , 2012
Alma alga
SHORT STORIES, 2010
No olvides nuestros nombres
NOVEL, 2009
La voluntad del molle
NOVEL, 2006