[Many thanks to Dorothy Bell Ferrer for bringing this writer to our attention!] Yurieth Romero’s Las Visitantes [The Visitors] It was published by Alpha Guara in January 2025. A Santa Marta writer on Colombia’s Caribbean coast, Romero is also the founder of LaCaracala Films Production Company. Las Visitantes It is part of a transmedia project consisting of short stories, television series and films.
Paula Moreno wrote: “In her literary debut, Yurieth Romero reveals the invisible prison that defines a woman’s everyday life. With fierce and enchanting prose, these pages capture readers with contradictions inherent in their longing for freedom.”
Description: “Today, we’re here, waiting in line, just like usual, next to one another. We hate each other, but we’re in the same situation.”
Chiara is a trans woman dreaming of a happy future with the man she loves. Lara is a sex worker who wants to return to her hometown and bury her dead loved one. Without “H” Catelin is a mother who is desperately trying to free her husband. They all exist on the margins of society and are related by singular routines. On Sundays, we visit people in prison. Their pilgrimage is shared by other Afro-Caribbean women like them, and are appointed weekly to gather to visit their sons, grandchildren and ex-husbands. And that lies at the point of that meeting, where this book brings life.
Through the stories that make up this volume – recipient of unpublished works grants to Afro-Colombian authors by the Ministry of Culture of Colombia [Beca de Creación Inédita para Autoras Afrocolombianas] – Romero digs into the world of these women who are waiting forever. The result of her writing is an act of resistance in the face of peripheral violence, both a raw story and us.
Yurieth Romero It is an Afro-Colombian film born in Santa Marta, Colombia, and is a television writer and screenwriter. As a screenwriter, she co-written several award-winning series for public television in her country. She is a Masters Program in Cultural Management and Audiovisual Production at Jorge Tadeo Lozano University in Bogota, and is a Fellow of the Poder Etnica Audiovisual Program at Manos Visiems Corporation and is the founder of the production company La Caracola Films.
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