María Fernanda Ampuero (Guayaquil, 14 April 1976) is an Ecuadorian feminist writer and journalist.

For the next decade she wrote numerous articles about migrants' lives and their economic hardships that were published in magazines around Latin America and Europe.

Some of these articles were later compiled in her first two non-fiction books: Lo que aprendí en la peluquería (2011) and Permiso de residencia (2013).

It was named one of the best 10 books of 2018 by the Spanish edition of The New York Times and won the Joaquín Gallegos Lara National Fiction Prize.

[5][6] The book, composed of 13 stories, explores topics such as violence, sexism and social inequality in Latin America through the eyes of women.