PAQUITA SUÁREZ COALLA is a Spanish writer and professor at BMCC (City University of New York). She is also co-founder of Latino Artists Round Table, 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 Pa nun escaeceme (Oviedo: Trabe, 2003), a book of short stories; 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). In 1994, as a literary critic, she published the book La literatura fantástica en la obra de Adolfo Bioy Casares.

Paquita Suárez-Coalla writes in Spanish and Asturian, her native language.