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Arelis Uribe

Arelis Uribe is a writer, journalist, and translator from Santiago, Chile, and her fiction and nonfiction has been published, awarded, and acclaimed internationally. She has published a collection of short stories, Quiltras (Los Libros de la Mujer Rota, 2016); an anthology of opinion articles, Que explote todo (Los Libros de la Mujer Eota, 2017); and a short novel, Las heridas (Emecé Editores, 2021). She served as the communications director at the Observatory Against Street Harassment, a feminist organization that advocated for the first anti–street sexual harassment law in Chile, and she has been a professor of literature and writing for more than fifteen years. Uribe holds an MFA in creative writing from New York University.

Fiction

Fall 2024

Italy

By Arelis Uribe, translated by Allison Braden

Italy was always reading a book. Sometimes we lay in the grass, and I rested my head on her legs, and her hair brushed my face, and she read me […]