She studied Pedagogy in Language and Communication at the University of La Frontera in Temuco, and graduated as a Spanish teacher and a licentiate in education in 2003.

[4] The following collection of poems, Spandau (2012), consolidated her outstanding position in new poetry of her country by receiving the Santiago Municipal Literature Award.

[5][6] In 2015 Dünkler released her fourth poetry collection, Yatagán, and the following year her poetic career was distinguished with the Pablo Neruda Award.

[1] Her poems, reviews, and conversations appear in the Daf-Brücke journals of the Association of German Professors (AGPA), Chile affiliate (Santiago, 2010), and in Nachrichten (Frankfurt, 2009).

Texts of hers, along with those of other national poets, Polish and German, were part of the Poetry Bombings in Warsaw in 2009 and in Berlin in 2010, organized by the collective Casagrande.