Victoria Guerrero Peirano is a poet, teacher, and researcher. Her novella Un golpe de dados (novelita sentimental pequeño burguesa) was published in Cusco (2015) and in Tijuana (2014). With the Chilean poet, Raúl Zurita, she published Zurita + Guerrero (Guayaquil, 2014). The compilation of her poetry Documentos de Barbarie (2002-2012) appeared in Lima (2013) and includes her books El mar ese oscuro porvernir, Ya nadie incendia el mundo, Berlin, and Cuadernos de quimioterapia. Her poems have appeared in various national and international magazines and anthologies and have been translated into German, English, French, Portuguese, and Finnish. She has been invited to the World Village Festival in Helsinki, the Bogota Book Fair, the Parnassus Festival in London and Berlin’s Latinale. She holds a PhD in Literature from Boston University and a Diploma in Gender Studies. She is a professor at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú in Lima, and cares for her cat.