Rosmery Paola Armenteros Herrera is an Afro-Colombian writer, electronics engineer and cultural manager, from the Palenque diaspora and based in Cartagena de Indias. She currently works as a cultural manager at Casa Bolívar, part of the Ministry of Culture. She is the author of works such as Azabache: Crónicas de Antonia, in which she explores the spirituality, everyday life, bodies and resistance of Black women in the Palenque de Benkos, the first free town in the Americas. She is an active member of Harvard ALARI (Afro-Latin American Studies) at Harvard University. She was part of the first generation at Lab Macondo for female screenwriters, organised by Netflix Colombia and the Colombian Film Academy. She represented the Colombian Caribbean at the 7th International Meeting of Caribbean Women Writers in the Dominican Republic in 2025. She has promoted her works at major book fairs such as the Bogota Book Fair and the Guadalajara Book Fair in Mexico, the Hay Festival in Cartagena de Indias, as well as national book fairs throughout Colombia. She has developed creative writing projects with an ethnic focus for children and young people through Hay Festival Presenta and the Bolivar Regional Government. She has worked on cultural and literary mediation initiatives linked to the Colombian Caribbean and the Palenque de Benkos.
