Adriana Villegas Botero (Manizales, 1974). Writer and lecturer at the University of Manizales. Author of the novel El oído miope (Alfaguara, 2018) and the book of short stories and micro-stories El lugar de todos los muertos (Secretaría de Cultura de Caldas, 2019). Social communicator, journalist and lawyer, specialist in Colombian literature, master in political studies and PhD student in literature. Sunday columnist for La Patria, winner of the Simón Bolívar National Journalism Prize in 1999, 2019 and 2021. Since 2005 she has published literary commentaries on the blog secretodelectura.blogspot.com and in 2022 she was part of the team that drafted the Report of the Truth Commission on the Eje Cafetero.