Patricia Engel

Patricia Engel is a Colombian-American writer, professor of creative writing at the University of Miami, and author of five books, including ''Vida'', which was a PEN/Hemingway Fiction Award Finalist and winner of the Premio Biblioteca de Narrativa Colombiana, Colombia's national prize in literature. She was the first woman, and ''Vida'' the first book in translation, to receive the prize.

She is also the author of ''It's Not Love, It's Just Paris'', and the novel ''The Veins of the Ocean'', which won the 2017 Dayton Literary Peace Prize. The ''San Francisco Chronicle'' called Engel "a unique and necessary voice for the Americas." Provided by Wikipedia