Yana Lucila Lema

Yana Lucila Lema: (1974), was born in Otavalo, Ecuador. She is a journalist, videographer, translator, cultural worker, and Kichwa storyteller. She won first prize in video for her film about traditional medicine at the Abya Yala CONAIE First Nations III Festival of Film and Video in 1999, among many other awards. She has published two anthologies of Ecuadorean indigenous poetry, Hatun Taki in 2013 and Chawpi Pachapi Arawikuna in 2015. She is professor of Literature at the Universidad de las Artes.