Gabriela Alemán is the author of ten books, including the novels Poso Wells (City Lights, 2018) and the short story collection Family Album (City Lights, 2022). An author of critical essays on literature and film, she is a founding member of the publishing house El Fakir Editores, based in Ecuador. At Tulane University, she developed the Latin American Writers Series, a digital archive of contemporary Latin American Literature. She currently lives in Quito, Ecuador.