María Isabel Lara Millapan

María Isabel Lara Millapan is a Mapuche poet. She was born in 1979 in Chihuimpilli, a Mapuche community located in Freire, Araucanía Region, Chile. She is professor of Didactics of Language and Literature at the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona and an academic at Campus Villarrica of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. She is also associate researcher of the Centro de Estudios Interculturales e Indígenas CIIR. In 2016, she was awarded the Asát’ap award for her contribution to education. She is the coauthor of two books, one educational—Kimün. Aprendiendo mapudungun a través de poesías y relatos (2014)—and another testimonial: “Zomo Newen”. Relatos de vida de mujeres mapuche en su lucha por los derechos indígenas (2017). Her work has been included in several anthologies. She has published three verse collections, all bilingual: Puliwen ñi pewma. Sueños de un amanecer (2002), Ale. Luz de la luna (2012), and Trekan Antü (2018), along with the audio poetry album Aukiñko (2014).