Yijhán Rentería Salazar is a writer and university professor in the fields of language, literature, and critical pedagogy at the Universidad Tecnológica del Chocó. Since 2011, she has led and supported cultural and educational initiatives in Colombia’s Pacific region, with a focus on artistic training and creative writing in Afro-descendant communities. She was selected as a fellow of the Women’s Creative Mentorship Project at the University of Iowa (2019) and served as an advisor to Colombia’s Ministry of Education for the Plan Nacional de Lectura, Escritura, Oralidad y Bibliotecas Escolares. She has contributed to the Spanish newspaper El País and has participated in editorial projects that promote non-hegemonic literary voices, especially those of women and racialized communities. She holds a Master’s degree in Linguistics from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia.

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