DORIS MOROMISATO

DORIS MOROMISATO (Chambala, Lima, 1962) was born into a family of Japanese immigrants from Okinawa. She graduated from the Legal and Political Sciences Faculty, Universidad Nacional Mayor, San Marcos. She is a poet, prose writer and essayist. She has published four volumes of poetry: Morada donde la luna perdió su palidez (1988), Chambala era un camino (1999), Diario de la mujer es ponja (2004) and Paisaje terrestre (2007); two volumes of chronicles: Okinawa. Un siglo en el Perú (2006) and Crónicas de mujeres nikkei (2019, 2020). Her poems have been included in both national and international anthologies and translated into several languages: English, Japanese, French, German, Finnish, Dutch and Romanian. She has represented Peru within the framework of several cultural events held in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Columbia, Ecuador, El Salvador, The United States, France, Japan, Mexico, Puerto Rico. For 11 years she was the general manager of the Cámara Peruana del Libro Institute and the organizer of numerous book fairs. She is currently devoting her time to her own Institute: Kimochi Gestión Cultural, through the agency of which she organizes cultural events, book fairs and feminist programs. She was a feminist activist in 1980 and she identifies herself as a feminist, buddhist, ecologist and exponent of the influence of Asia upon the history of Latin America.