Yuliana Ortiz Ruano is an Ecuadorian poet and writer. She published poetry in Sovoz, Canciones desde el fin del mundo (Libero Editorial, Madrid) and Cuaderno del imposible retorno a Pangea (Cajón de Sastre, Bogotá). She was selected in the Translator Choice II of the Latin American Literature Festival LATINALE, organized by the Cervantes Institute of Berlin. Carnival Fever (Himpar Editores, Colombia) her first novel, won the IESS Primo Romanzo Latinoamericano prize in Italy, the national prize for best novel Joaquín Gallegos Lara in Ecuador and the PEN Presents, and PEN Translates Award. Winner of the International Writers in Residence Program in Granada, Unesco Literary City 2023. Her poetry has been translated into Portuguese, English, Finnish and German.