Pía Barros
Pía Barros Bravo (born 20 January 1956) is a Chilean writer, best known for her short stories. She is associated with her country's literary Generation of '80. Biography. Pía Barros left Melipilla, the city where she grew up, "without sorrow", together with "a good girl's destiny and the memory of the mare to which, from the age of seven, she told her poems." She moved to Santiago to study pedagogy in Spanish. There she also attended the workshop of Carlos Ruiz-Tagle (later, she herself would hold a famous workshop), who recommended that she stop "perpetrating  poems on defenseless people" and devote herself to narrative. In 1989 she was a visiting professor at the University of Oregon, United States. Pía Barros, who declares herself "a very honored feminist", has stood out for her short stories, although she has also written some novels. In addition, she has published some 30 object books with literary material illustrated by prominent Chilean graphic artists, which have earned her the Fondart () fellowship on two occasions. She also received a fellowship from the Andes Foundation, with which she wrote the first digitally distributed novel in Chile, "Lo que ya nos encontró", and  also a writer's fellowship from the . Her stories have been published in more than 30 anthologies, from countries such as Chile, Germany, Costa Rica, Ecuador, the United States (some translated by Martha Manier, Diane Russell, Analisa Taylor, Amanda Powell, Jacquline Nanfito, Resha Cardone, and Jane Griffin), France, Italy, Russia, and Venezuela. In Chile, they share a publication with stories by writers such as Roberto Bolaño, Alberto Fuguet, Antonio Skarmeta, Diamela Eltit, and Isabel Allende. Barros has directed the literary workshop Ergo Sum since 1986. She is also the director of Ediciones Asterión. She is married to the poet and  journalist . They have been a couple since the early 1980s and have two daughters: Abril, a textile artist, and Miranda, a writer.