This piece is part of our Fall 2018 print issue.
Adriana Páramo is a cultural anthropologist and women’s rights advocate.
She is the award winner author of Looking for Esperanza, My Mother’s Funeral, Unsent Letters to my Mother, and Keeping Quiet: Sixteen Essays on Silence, an upcoming collection of essays.
Her essays, mostly on women’s issues, have been published in The Sun, Fourth Genre, The Georgia Review, The Carolina Quarterly, and others.
Adriana teaches creative nonfiction writing in the low-residency MFA program at Fairfield University.
She writes from Colombia, where, oddly enough, she works as a yoga and dance instructor.
