Blanca Eugenia Viteri Segura (4 July 1928 – 21 September 2023) was an Ecuadorian writer, anthologist, women's rights activist, and teacher.
Her father was Ignacio Viteri Urquiza, an accountant, and her mother was María Tomasa Segura Leó, who worked in a button factory.
Three years later, after graduating with a bachelor's degree in modern humanities, she joined the Department of Philosophy and Letters and the University of Guayaquil.
[3] Viteri openly sympathized with Marxist ideas, so when the military dictatorship took control in 1963, she was forced to self-exile with her daughter in Chile, bringing only the money she could scrounge up through selling her furniture.
[3] Viteri was hired to supervise competitions and run the student newspaper at a grade school, the Colegio Nacional Veinticuatro de Mayo, in 1969.
[2] She has been described as "a pioneer in introducing feminist themes to Ecuadorian fiction, such as domestic violence, prostitution, and romantic-sexual intimacy between women.