Daisy Zamora

Daisy Zamora: (1950), is a Nicaraguan writer with numerous books, most recently La violenta espuma (2017), Transito de espumas (2020), and Cerrada luz (2021). She was featured on The Language of Life with Bill Moyers (PBS) and in Las Sandinistas, a documentary film by Jenny Murray. During the Nicaraguan revolution she fought with the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN). She participated in the military operation that occupied the National Palace, seat of Somoza’s Congress, and was director of programming and the voice on clandestine Radio Sandino. During the early years of the Sandinista revolution, she served as Vice Minister of Culture. She teaches at San Francisco State University.