Andrea Álvarez Mujica

Andrea Álvarez Mujica is a journalist, writer, and editor, and is co-founder of the independent press Hormigas Negras. She is the author of the biography Estelares: detrás de las canciones (2022), the book of short stories Destructible (2024), the compilation of music journalism Horas de rock (2017), and the novels Los novios muertos (2015) and La vida es extraña (2021). From 2011 to 2021, she participated in the literary workshops of Juan Forn. She is currently a literary columnist for the radio program Cosa de Negros. Under the pseudonym of Vera Land, she published her first novel, Tu maquillaje de fuga se evapora con la luz (2002), along with the biographies Páez (1995) and Los Tres, la última canción (2002), both of which she co-authored with Enrique Symns. She formed part of the founding team of Chilean periodical The Clinic, and she has worked as an editor of sections and supplements of various Argentine outlets, including the cultural weekly La Maga and the magazine Cerdos & Peces. She also worked as a columnist for the program Es lo que hay on Rock & Pop radio (1998).