Adriana Páramo

Adriana Páramo, a Colombian anthropologist, was the winner of the Social Justice and Equality Award in creative nonfiction for her book Looking for Esperanza (Benu Press, 2012). Her writing has appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, the Los Angeles Review, Fourteen Hills, Carolina Quarterly Review, and Compass Rose, among others. Páramo volunteers her time as a transcriber for Voice of Witness, a book series that empowers those affected by social injustice.