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. Her work has been featured in Epu mari ulkantufe ta fachantu/20 poetas mapuches contemporáneas (2003), Hilando en la memoria (2006 and 2009), and Kümedungun/Kümewirin: Antología poética de mujeres mapuche (siglos XX-XXI) (2010). Her poetry collections include Üi (2005) and Parias zugun (2014).