Mónica Acebedo is a writer and professor of literature. She is a lawyer with a master's degree and PhD in literature. She is the director of the Reading Club at the University of the Andes, teaches literature workshops, and leads other reading groups. She is the author of the books Letras compartidas: una estrategia de lectura (Shared Letters: A Reading Strategy); Verdades a medias (Half-Truths); El enigma del amuleto (The Enigma of the Amulet); El niño de barro (The Clay Child); Perejil (Parsley), among others. She has published academic articles and book chapters on writers of the Spanish Golden Age—with special attention to María de Zayas y Sotomayor—and literary texts in cultural magazines such as Arcadia. Since 2019, she has been writing the column ‘La Jácara literaria’ in El Espectador, which is divided into two sections: History of Literature (works that have shaped the universal literary canon) and Transgressive Pens (authors who have challenged the literary and social conventions of their time).