Eliana Hernandez Pachon

Eliana Hernández-Pachón is a writer and educator from Bogotá, Colombia. Her book La Mata (in English, The Brush) won the National Award of Poetry in Colombia in 2020. She is the co-author of Plantas del Camino, a book on weeds and healing, and edited the anthology Un florero que se rompe/A Vase that Shatters, which features short stories and poems by members of the Truth Commission of Colombia. She is part of Como un lugar, a poetry collective that runs an independent press in Buenos Aires and organizes a Latin American poetry festival in NYC.

Eliana will be in residence at Can Serrat during January-February 2025.