Marina Burana is a painter and a writer from Argentina based in Taiwan. She is also a puppeteer and a facilitator of participatory community art projects. She has exhibited in public/commercial galleries and museums in the US, UK, Taiwan, Spain, Argentina, Mexico and Italy. As a writer, Marina mainly focuses on writing fiction in English and in Spanish. She has published three books of short stories and her poems, works of fiction and nonfiction appear in various anthologies, journals and magazines. Her plays have had stage readings and full productions in the US, UK, Argentina, Uruguay, Canada, Peru, Portugal and Taiwan. She studied at the Art Students League of New York and holds a BFA (Painting Major) from Taipei National University of the Arts.