María Ignacia Schulz is an Afro-Colombian-German academic, writer and translator. She is a PhD candidate at the University of Bremen, an associate researcher in the ERC Starting Grant project AFROEUROPECYBERSPACE, and a member of the research group De Áfricas y Diaspora: Imaginarios Culturales y Literarios (ADICL) at the University of Alcalá. She completed the Master’s programme Estudios Avanzados en Literatura Española y Latinoamericana at the Universidad Internacional de La Rioja and graduated with a degree in Linguistics and Literary Studies from the Universidad de Cartagena (Colombia), where she taught Colombian literature, amongst other subjects. Her research focuses on narrative literature by women writers of African descent from the Hispanic Caribbean and Spain, Black bodies, Afrofeminism and Afro-cyberactivism in the Spanish-speaking world.

In 2011, she co-founded the literary journal alba. reading latin america, of which she was co-editor and editor until 2019. Her writings have appeared in anthologies such as 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 translated poems by Shirley Campbell Barr into German, published as Vollkommen Schwarz / Rotundamente Negra (hochroth Heidelberg, 2022). The translation received an award from the German Translators’ Fund.

María Ignacia is an author and editor at @Literatur.Review.