Erna von der Walde, essayist, translator, and independent researcher in the areas of Colombian and Latin American literature, art, culture, and politics. A graduate in Philosophy and Letters from the University of the Andes in Bogotá, she holds a master's degree in English literature from the University of Warwick and a Ph.D. in Literature from the University of Essex. She recently co-edited, with Margarita Serje, a new edition of
La vorágine by José Eustasio Rivera, which includes maps and a dossier of texts about the Orinoco and Amazon regions and the impacts of colonization and extractivism in the area. This year, she curated an exhibition in Newcastle, England, on rubber and the atrocities committed during rubber exploitation in Putumayo, and is currently working on a permanent virtual exhibition on José Eustasio Rivera and
La vorágine with the National Library of Colombia.