María Fernanda Ampuero

María Fernanda Ampuero (Guayaquil, Ecuador, 1976) is a writer and a journalist. She has published articles in newspapers and magazines around the world. Ampuero is the editor of the short-story section in the cultural supplement of the Spanish newspaper ABC and teaches journalism in the Universidad Complutense in Madrid. In 2012 she was selected as one of the 100 most influential Latin-Americans in Spain, where she resides. She has published the narrative non-fiction books What I Learned at the Hairdressing Salon (Dinediciones, 2011) and Residence Permit (Caracola Editores, 2013). In 2016 she received the Cosecha Eñe Award for Short Stories. Cockfight (Páginas de Espuma, 2018) was her first short story book and its success was overwhelming.