María Ospina is Colombian writer who grew up in Bogotá and its nearby mountains. Her first book of fiction, the short story collection Azares del cuerpo, was published in Colombia, Chile, and Spain and translated into Italian and English (Variations on the Body, Coffee House Press). Her novel Solo un poco aquí, winner of the Colombian National Novel Award (2024) and the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize for Literature (2023), has been translated into German, Portuguese, Italian, and English (Only a Little While Here, Scribner). She has written extensively about contemporary Colombian culture in light of legacies of extractivism, violence, and war, including the book Memory’s Conundrum: Colombian Literature, Film, and Testimony at the Beginning of the 21st Century. She is a professor of Latin American culture at Wesleyan University. Like the migratory birds she obsessively searches for, she spends her time between the United States and the Colombian Andes.
