Ariel Florencia Richards

Ariel Florencia Richards is a Chilean writer and scholar of visual arts.

Career
Richards is a recipient of the Bicentennial Fellowship, which supported her completion of a MFA in Creative Writing at New York University. She first published her poetry in pamphlets and zines which were presented at NY Art Book Fair and Santiago Museum of Contemporary Art. Her calligraphy is included in the Brooklyn Museum Libraries and Archives permanent collections.

Richards teaches writing and architecture at Universidad de las Américas and is working toward a PhD at Pontificia Universidad de Chile.

Personal life
Richards is a transgender woman and transitioned at age 37. Her third book, Inacabada, is the first she published after transition.

Writing

 * Trasatlántico (Editorial Cuneta, 2015)
 * Las olas son las mismas [The Waves are the Same] (Los Libros de la Mujer Rota, first published 2016, reprinted in 2021 under her name after her transition)
 * Inacabada [Unfinished] (Alfaguara, 2023)