Carmen Rodríguez

Carmen Rodríguez is a Chilean-Canadian bilingual writer and the award-winning author of Guerra Prolongada/Protracted War (poetry); and a body to remember with/De cuerpo entero (short stories); and Retribution/Chiles døtre and Atacama (novels). Rodríguez also has an extensive career as an educator and journalist. As an educator, she has taught theories and practices in education, languages, literature and creative writing, and worked in adult literacy and popular education with Indigenous Peoples and other marginalized communities in the Americas. As a journalist, she was Vancouver Correspondent for Radio Canada International for twenty-two years and one of the founders of Revista Aquelarre Magazine.