Gisela Heffes

Gisela Heffes is a writer and professor of Latin American literature at Rice University (Houston), where she also teaches creative writing in Spanish. She has published the anthology Judíos/Argentinos/Escritores (1999), two monographs–Las ciudades imaginarias en la literatura latinoamericana (2008) and Políticas de la destrucción/Poéticas de la preservación. Apuntes para una lectura (eco)crítica del medio ambiente en América latina (2013). She also has edited Poéticas de los (dis)locamientos (2012) and Utopías urbanas. Geopolítica del deseo en América latina (2013), and was the guest editor for the special issue of Revista de Critica Literaria Latinoamericana on “Ecocrítica” (2014). As for her fiction, she is the author of the novels Ischia (2000), Praga (2001), Ischia, Praga & Bruselas (2005), the collection of short stories Glossa urbana (2012), a collection of poetic chronicles, Aldea Lounge (2014 ) and the novella Sophie La Belle (a bilingual edition with images by the author, 2016). She is the founder of the digital repository “Archiving the Future: The Recovery of a Heritage in the Making,” an initiative that seeks to gather and record the voices of Spanish-American writers living in the United States, in collaboration with Literal Publishing and the Humanities Research Center (Rice University).