I am a teacher, researcher, and artivist. I have more than twenty years of experience designing community-based arts programs in Latin America. My work resides at the intersection of children’s literature, reading mediation, and community publishing. My current research focuses on the history of Ecuadorian children’s literature from 1980 to 2025. I am based in Ecuador and available for research collaborations, teaching, editorial projects, and community arts initiatives worldwide.
Out picturebook has been selected for the BRAW Amazing Bookshelf at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair, a special exhibition celebrating titles that most impressed the international juries among over 4,000 submissions from 73 countries.
This is the first time an Ecuadorian book appears on this list!
MARÍA ALEJANDRA ZAMBRANO, Ph.D. 