liliana Ancalao

A celebrated Mapuche poet, Liliana Ancalao was born in 1961 in Puel Mapu, what is more commonly known as Argentina. She is a co-founder of ñamkulawen, a Mapuche community group working to protect and advance Mapuche culture. She has published the poetry collections Rokiñ provisiones para el viaje, Mujeres a la intemperie-pu zomo wekuntu mew, and Tejido con lana cruda, as well as the book of essays Resuello-neyen. Her work has been widely anthologized and translated into English and French.