María Margarita Londoño

A Colombian writer of children’s stories, adult literature, poetry, essays
and opinion columns. She has combined activities like teaching, journalism and politics, but her true passions are writing, caricature and fieldwork.
She has been director of the Diario Occidente newspaper, of the Environmental Management Department of the city of Cali, has collaborated in creating the regional TV channel Telepací-fico, was Senator of the Republic of Colombia from 1998 to 2002, and has twice been a can-didate for Mayor of Cali. She currently works as a consultant in social communication, especially in areas related to nonviolence and communication for change, publishes an opinion column on the Las2Orillas.co portal and has a caricature blog on elespectador.com.
She has published over 15 children’s books with prestigious publishers in Latin America.