Writing is my habitat, the laboratory where I spend most of the time. My approach to this field has always been mainly self-taught, being eclectic reading, traveling and life in general the basis of my learning (always voracious and continuous). I have published four books, including poetry and fiction, and being part of several  anthologies in Ecuador, Spain, United States and Italy. ////// Poetry, essays, chronicles and travel diaries are  are the genres I explore the most, but above all, I like to think of LANGUAGE as a mutant animal that I am always playing with. ///////The Color of Pomegranate is currently being translated into Portuguese and Armenian. 

Journalism is my professional field, my day job for several years. I used to be a reporter and local journalist for a considerable number of art and culture publishings, from Ecuador and abroad, from written pieces to radio and audiovisual formats. However the narrative journalism (chronicles and profiles) is the ones I enjoy the most. I have collaborated with cultural supplements as CartoNPiedra, Rocinante and LEO (Cámara Ecuatoriana del Libro), and with specialised magazines on art, film, music, literature and travel. ////////////// I am currently a collaborator of Mundo Diners magazine (Ecuador), where I have written about Wislawa Symborzka, Fernando Pessoa, Helena Almeida, Moor Mother, Grahamn Green, Alberto Manguel, Yoann Bourgeois, Genesis P. Orridge and George Steiner, among many others.

Mi relationship with music is completely intuitive and ludic. I love to explore sounds using my voice as primary instrument. I am half of METAMORPHOSIS, a duo project where I improvise and conjugate ancient elements from a contemporary perspective. Electronic music, spoken word and dark ambient are some of the genres we approach in our explorations, as well as other we prefer to call: cinematic possession, low-fi futurism or pagan shamanism. //////As Durga Black I dig into the hip hop and electronic sound collages, establishing connections between the literary and the urban world. I usually play with a Yamaha CS2X, loop station, effect pedals, andean pipes, a MIDI keyboard, empty bottles, knifes, spoons and pretty much anything that makes a sound and leads us to imagine or inhabit another  reality. 

Simultaneously, I carry out several projects  that are part of that hybrid laboratory (analog collage, multimedia, literary translation). Moved by my extreme curiosity and as a vital impulse, these emerge as experiments that spread without a static aim, but more as a "work in progress", whose expansion is precisely open to other doors of knowledge, ideas and reflection. Some of them are ONE DAY AT A TIME (a series of consecutive photographs in which I try to translate nightmares into portraits with everyday objects); EESAYS ON SHADOW; or MY HOOD KNOWS (where graffiti is the main character, vindicating the street as the great open gallery). //////////////////////////

IMMATERIAL GEOGRAPHY (translation exercises and other approaches) (coming soon) focuses on literary translation and would include some fragments (both from English and Portuguese) of authors little known --or completely unknown-- in Spanish (or just my personal discoveries), that I have been working on my own for a while. It will include authors such as Adília Lopes, Gonçalo M. Tavares, Al Berto, Mary Ruefle, Maria Filomena Molder, Alberto Pimenta, Edouard Levé, Genesis P. Orridge, Bob Kauffman, Maria Gabriela Llansol, or Maya Deren, among others.