Gabriela Ponce

Gabriela Ponce (Quito, 1977) is a fiction writer, playwright and theater director, as well as a professor of performing arts at the Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador. In 2015, she published her first book, Antropofaguitas, which was considered the year’s best book of short stories by Ecuador’s Ministry of Culture. In 2019, she published the novel Sanguínea (Severo Editorial) also published in Spain by Editorial Candaya, and was awarded the Gallegos Lara Prize by the Municipality of Quito for best novel of the year. In 2020, she published Solo hay un jardín: en el fondo de todo hay un jardín (La Caída Editorial), which compiles a few of her plays. She is part of Mitómana, a performing arts collective, and she is co-founder of the cultural venue Casa Mitómana. She is on the editorial board of Sycorax magazine.