Daniela Catrileo Author

Daniela Catrileo was born in Santiago de Chile in 1987 and is a Mapuche writer. She's also an artist, a philosophy lecturer and an activist committed to the rights of Chile’s indigenous population. She is a member of the Colectivo Mapuche Rangiñtulewfü and part of the editorial team for Yene , a digital magazine featuring art, writing, and critical thought from across Wallmapu and the Mapuche diaspora. She has published two collections of poems: Río herido (Wounded River) (2016) and Guerra florida (Flourishing War) (2018), for which she was awarded the Premio Municipal de Literatura by the city of Santiago de Chile in 2019; two chapbooks: El territorio del viaje (The Journey's Territory) (2017, 2022) and Las aguas dejaron de unirse a otras aguas (The Waters Ceased to Join Other Waters) (2020); and a book of short stories: Piñen (2019), forthcoming from Charco Press in 2026. Chilco is her first novel and her first book to be translated into English.

Jacob Edelstein is a translator from the South Bay of Los Angeles, California. His recent translation work has been featured in Latin American Literature Today , The Columbia Review , The Southern Review , The Hunger Mountain Review , and elsewhere. His translation of Patrimonio by Santiago Arau was published in 2023, and his translations of Monserrat Sepúlveda’s ¡Hasta mi mama! and Daniela Catrileo’s Piñen are forthcoming.