María Fernanda Ampuero (Guayaquil, Ecuador, 1976) is a writer and a journalist published in newspapers and magazines around the world. In 2012 she was selected as one of the 100 most influential Latin Americans in Spain, where she resides. In 2016 she received the Cosecha Eñe Award for Short Stories for Cockfight. Her second collection of stories, Human Sacrifices, is forthcoming with Feminist Press.