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Luz Marina Rivas is a literary critic and coordinator of the Master’s in Literature and Culture at the Instituto Caro y Cuervo in Bogotá. She retired as a full professor from the Universidad Central de Venezuela. Her published books include La historia en la mirada (1997), La novela intrahistórica (2000 and 2004), Las mujeres tienen la palabra: antología de narradoras venezolanas (2004), and Otra tierra, otro mar: Antología de crónicas de la migración venezolana en Colombia (2021). She is also the author of numerous articles in specialized journals and other outlets, as well as book chapters and prologues.