Hay Festival Arequipa 2018

Writer of fiction and non-fiction, journalist and a campaigner. She is the author of seven books, one of them has been adapted for performance. Her writing has been widely published in anthologies and journals including The Dalkey Archive's Best European Fiction 2015, Granta Magazine, and Salt's Best British Short Stories, 2014 and 2015. 

In 2017 she was awarded the UK Arts Foundation's Fellowship in Literature. She is currently the Anthony Burgess Fellow at the University of Manchester, UK.

She was born in Cambridge (U.K.) and grew up in Cali (Colombia). She is currently completing her PhD in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. In addition to The Lucky Ones her short fiction has appeared in Best British Short Stories and The New Yorker. 

As a documentary maker she has captured stories from Colombia in Hostage in the Jungle(2010), about the kidnapping and subsequent holding of Colombian ex-presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt and Gabo, the work of Gabriel García Márquez (2015). This year, El testigo: Caín y Abel, a documentary about the life and work of Colombian photographer Jesús Abad Colorado, a graphic reporter who has dedicated the last 25 years of his life to portraying the internal armed conflict in Colombia.