Eliana Hernández-Pachón was born in Bogotá, Colombia. Her first book, The Brush, is an aching work of historical reckoning, commemorating the massacre in the village of El Salado in 2000 and the wider tragedy of mass murders in Colombia. The Brush received Colombia’s National Poetry Prize in 2020, making Hernández-Pachón the youngest poet to ever receive this honor. She is part of Como un lugar, a poetry collective that runs an independent press in Buenos Aires and organizes literary festivals in New York City and Latin America. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.