Jeanny Chapeta

Jeanny Chapeta is a Guatemalan writer born in 1988.  Her story “Claudia and the Cats” won the 2016 El Palabrista Contest and was later translated to English and published by the Cervantes Institute at Harvard University.   She has published two novels, El año en que Lucía dejó de soñar (2017, Santillana) and ¿Volverás a soñar, Lucía? (2019, Santillana), and two collections of short stories, Historias incompletas (Extracto, 2017) and Casa de Silencios (2018, Los Zopilotes).  She is also a professor of Language and Literature at the Universidad del Valle in Guatemala.