Adriana Pacheco

Adriana Pacheco, PhD is founder and producer of the Hablemos, escritoras podcast and encyclopedia and the online bookstore Shop Escritoras Books. She holds a PhD in Iberian and Latin American Literatures and Cultures and in Luso-Brazilian Cultural and Media Studies, and is an Affiliate Research Fellow at the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies. She was a member and former Chair of the International Board of Advisors of the University of Texas at Austin and she sits on the Texas Book Festival Advisory Board. A Texas Book Festival Feature Author (2012), she has several publications in international magazines like Letras Libres, Literal Magazine, and Viceversa, among others. She has edited several books of criticism and documentaries to promote literacy and the work of women writers, such as Romper con la palabra: Violencia y género en la literatura mexicana contemporánea (Eón, 2017) and Para seguir rompiendo con la palabra: Dramaturgas, cineastas, periodistas y ensayistas mexicanas contemporáneas (Literal/Eón, 2021). She was born in Puebla, Mexico and is a naturalized American citizen.