In this poem, Eliana Hernández traces the edges of the El Salado Massacre, choosing to narrate, in verse, its contours. María Isabel Rueda's drawing grows and spills across the pages like implacable nature that did not stop before the violence of men. From the mountain's gaze, the book contemplates the horror of one of the forty-two massacres that, over a span of three years, left three hundred fifty-four victims in the Montes de María region of Colombia.

Eliana Hernández Pachón (Bogotá, 1989) is an anthropologist. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from New York University. She currently lives in Brooklyn, NY, where she is pursuing a PhD in Literature and teaches Spanish. La mata is her first book.

María Isabel Rueda (Cartagena, 1972) is an artist and curator. She is editor of Rosa Lux Press and Tropical Goth Magazine. She is artistic director of the project El Huevo y la Gallina, and of the independent space La Usurpadora in Puerto Colombia, a curatorial research and artist residency project. She has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions, both national and international, since 1999.

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