Marisa Zulema Estelrich, actriz protagónica, autora de la novela y productora ejecutiva del film

Biography

Marisa Estelrich was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where she completed her B.A. in English as a Second Language. She moved to Winston Salem, North Carolina in 1997, and completed her postgraduate studies at Wake Forest University (Master of Arts in Liberal Studies. 2000), and at the University of North Carolina in Greensboro (Master of Arts in Romance Languages and Literature with a Concentration in Spanish. 2005).  Her academic articles, newspaper articles, literary translations and short stories have been published in the United States, Spain and Argentina.  She is the author of the first-prize-winning collection of stories Desnudos del alma (Nuevo Ser: Buenos Aires, 2004).  This collection of stories was translated by Dr. Graciela Lucero Hammer and published in a bilingual edition as Naked Souls/Desnudos del alma (Press 23: Winston Salem, 2009).  Her first novella Cuando yo te vuelva a ver won an award at the Cristóbal Zaragoza V Short Novel Contest in Villajoyosa, Spain, and was published in April 2009.  Her translation of Martín Espada’s Imagine the Angels of Bread was included in La tumba de Buenaventura Roig. Selected Poems (Terranova Editores: Puerto Rico, 2008).  At present she works as a free-lance writer, translator, and audio editor for the ECHO Network’s StoryLine Project. For more information about her work you can visit:

http://fis.ucalgary.ca/ACH/Registro/Marisa_Estelrich/index.html

www.storylineproject.org