Adriana Paredes Pinda is a Mapuche-Huilliche poet. She was born in 1970 in the city of Osorno, Los Lagos, Chile. She is a machi and a professor of Spanish Language and Communication. In 1998, she won first place in the Primer Concurso de Poesía en Lenguas Nativas. In 2002, she was awarded a writer’s grant from the Consejo Nacional del Libro y la Lectura.
