María Ignacia Schulz is an Afro-Colombian-German author and translator. Her research interests include Hispanic Afro-Caribbean literatures and Black and Afro-Caribbean feminisms. She holds a master's degree in Spanish and Latin American literature from the Universidad Internacional de La Rioja and previously studied linguistics and literature at the Universidad de Cartagena (Colombia), where she also taught Colombian literature. In 2011, she co-founded the literary journal alba lateinamerika lesen, of which she was co-editor and editor until 2019. She is currently part of the research group "Literaturas de Ancestralidade Negra (LAN)" of the Postgraduate Program in Literature and Literary Criticism at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP).

Her texts have been published in anthologies, most recently in La urgencia del consuelo. Cartas de mujeres colombianas (Cero Squema, 2020) and De fuego y tiempo: el cuento afrocolombiano contemporáneo (Lugar Común, 2023). Together with Daphne Nechyba, she has translated poems by Shirley Campbell Barr into German under the title Vollkommen schwarz / Rotundamente Negra. This work was funded by the German Translators' Fund.

María is an author and editor @Literature.Review.