PAQUITA SUÁREZ COALLA is a Spanish writer and a professor at B.M.C.C. (City University of New York) and co-founder of Latino Artists Round Table
(LART), a cultural group that organizes readings and conferences of Hispanic writers from all the different regions of Latin America, the United States and Spain.
   
She has published two books of short stories in Asturian, Pa nun escaeceme (Oviedo: Trabe, 2003) translated into Spanish Para que no se me olvide (New York: Campana, 2007) and in English So I Won’t Forget (New York: Campana, 2007), and El día que nos llevaron al cine (Oviedo: Trabe, 2007); La mio vida ye una novela (Oviedo: Trabe, 2001) which is based on testimonies depicting the life of rural women from Asturias, and she is also the editor of the anthology Aquí me tocó escribir. Antología de escritores latinos de Nueva York (Oviedo: Trabe 2006). Paquita has also been included in the anthology Dos orillas. Voces en la narrativa lésbica/ Two Shores. Voices in Lesbian Narrative. (Barcelona: Editorial Egales, 2008). As a literary critic she published in 1994, in México, the book La literatura fantástica en la obra de Adolfo Bioy Casares.
   
Paquita Suárez-Coalla writes in Spanish and Asturian, her native language.