Originally from Buenos Aires, Argentina, Mariana Mazer is a writer and book maker, currently in her fifth year as a PhD candidate in Spanish at the University of Iowa. Her dissertation addresses and engages with the book as an object, examining the manifold stories that can abode in the materiality and corporeality of Latin American books. In this project she explores poetry, textuality and the ways in which they engage with materials surfaces. She completed an MFA in Spanish Creative Writing as an Iowa Arts Fellow, and a Graduate Certificate in Book Arts and Book Studies from the University of Iowa. Her poetry, short stories, and essays have been published in magazines, journals and anthologies in the US and Latin America.