Maivo Suárez (Talcahuano, 1964)

Chilean-Argentine writer, Maivo Suárez, is a Social Worker (University of Buenos Aires) and has a diploma in Publishing (Catholic University in Santiago).

She is the author of Sara, a novel that obtained the prestigious Gabriela Mistral Floral Games Prize in Santiago, Chile in the category of inedited novel in 2017; it was then published in 2019 by Kindberg Editorial in Chile, and in Argentina in 2023 by Caballo Negro Editors.

She has published a children’s book, Entre dos casas (2019, Libresa Editors, Ecuador); a collection of short stories, Lo que no bailamos (2016, self-published, in 2022, Provincianos); and Ambiente familiar (2020, Ediciones de la lumbre).

Several of her short stories have received awards and are published in numerous anthologies.