Ana Maria Reyes Barrios (Caracas, Venezuela, 1983). She has published Sombras de la sal with Equidistancias (London-Buenos Aires) and her poetry has also appeared in various anthologies both in Venezuela and in the United Kingdom. The daughter of filmmakers and social activists, she grew up among books, old movie cans and combative songs that from a very young age led her to understand that poetry was her way of relating to the world. With an avid and passionate imagination, she liked to tell epic stories and incredible adventures. As an adult, after having studied arts and documentary film and having lived in different cities around the world, she became a traveller and a nomad, finding in freedom the purest source of inspiration. Since then, she has collected stories and tales that she writes in the form of narrative and poetry. She practises writing and creation as anarchic rituals that keep her alive and bring her closer to the other inhabitants of this land.