[1] Her parents were Teresa Romero Paz and Carlos Wiesse Portocarrero, a historian and a professor at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos.
[5] Amauta magazine was focused on the influence of cinema on the social and cultural environment of Lima, and Wiesse published there her reviews on films and music, as well as other related articles.
[3] Wiesse also wrote biographies on Santa Rosa de Lima, on Sabogal, her husband, and on her friend José Carlos Mariátegui.
She published several books of stories, including Nocturnos (1925) and Nueve relatos (1954), as well as the novels La huachafita (1927), Diario sin dates (1948) and Tríptico (1953).
[4] Wiesse directed a magazine Familia aimed at the Lima's women of the middle and upper classes, where she focused on literary and musical themes to this determined reading public.