Catalina Infante Beovic

;

Catalina Infante Beovic is a Chilean writer, publisher, and co-owner of Librería Catalonia in Chile. She has written three books of short stories of the Indigenous peoples of Chile, authored the picture book Dichos redichos and the artist’s book Postal nocturna, and in 2018 published her first book of stories, Todas somos una misma sombra. “Ferns,” published in 2020 by WLT and subsequently nominated for a Pushcart Prize, was her English-language debut.

  • An aerial photograph of a dry river bed cutting through a dessicated landscape

    Like Creeping Lava

    July 2022
    Catalina Infante Beovic
    In the following essay, the author explores the apathy she finds even within herself in the face of a gradually expanding drought in Chile, the country most affected by the water crisis in Latin…
  • A river runs through a brown-green forest with a snow-covered mountain in the distance

    The Forest of Puerto Varas

    Autumn 2021
    Catalina Infante Beovic
    Photo by Trevor Vannoy on Unsplash THE CITY—rainy, with moody skies and smoke rising from the rooftops—gazes at the yawning lake that protects her, as if searching for something in i…
  • A human eye peers from the gap between numerous overlapping fern fronds

    Ferns

    June 8, 2020 Catalina Infante Beovic
    Photo: Quentin Lagache / Unsplash In this story of lengthy quarantine due to an unnamed virus, a woman sneaks into the mountain to collect ferns—many ferns. Simultaneously evoking life under past…