Yuliana Ortiz Ruano (Esmeraldas, Ecuador, 1992) is a research professor at the University of the Arts of Ecuador, and an Afro-music DJ. A novelist and a poet, she is the author of the collections Sovoz, Canciones desde el fin del mundo, and Cuaderno del imposible retorno a Pangea. Carnaval Fever won the Joaquín Gallegos Lara Award, the Primo Romanzo Latinoamericano Award, and the PEN Presents English PEN Award.