Gabriela Alemán (born September 30, 1968, in Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian-born Ecuadorian writer and educator, whose work has been translated into multiple languages.

[1] Born to Ecuadorian parents in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, she lived in several countries in her youth until she settled in Quito, Ecuador.

[citation needed] Alemán studied translation at University of Cambridge, received a master's in Latin American Literature at Andina Simón Bolívar (in Ecuador), and obtained a doctorate at Tulane University in New Orleans, U.S..[citation needed] Also, she was awarded the Guggenheim fellowship in the film, video and radio studies on 2006.

[citation needed] She was a professional basketball player in Switzerland and Paraguay and worked as waiter, manager, translator, radio scriptwriter, director assistant, editor, proofreader and journalist.

The novel focuses on power, politics and its consequences in society, was released in 2017.. After the publication of Poso Wells, her second novel, in its English edition by City Lights, Alemán's work has received attention in the main cultural magazines of the United States: The Paris Review, The New Yorker, and Los Angeles Review of Books have published commentaries and interviews about the novel.