Anabella Acevedo is a Guatemalan writer, editor and curator.  She began her study of Latin American literature during the height of the country's 36-year armed conflict.  She later moved to the United States to complete her graduate studies at the University of Georgia in Athens.  There she would gain a deeper understanding of her own country and exposure to feminist thinking.  While teaching at Texas Christian University, the Peace Accords were signed in Guatemala marking the beginning of a new era.  She decided it was the right moment to return home.

"I started feeling that so many things, exciting things were happening in Guatemala.  I was about to get my tenure. But I decided that Guatemala was the place where I wanted to be.  So I returned.  And in part it was because it was the 90s and the beginning of the 2000s.  It was a period of transition. And many things were happening.  And in the arts in Guatemala it was incredible. What was happening it was so new and so... refreshing that I wanted to be here."

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Regina Jose Galindo

Moises Barrios

La Cuerda Guatemala

2nd Annual Festival Todas Contra La Violencia

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