Yanna Hadatty Mora (born Guayaquil, 1969) is an Ecuadorian short story writer and essayist. [1]
Haddatty has lived in Mexico since 1992, where she completed her higher education and worked as a professor. She earned her doctorate in Ibero-American Literature from the Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), where she later worked as a professor and researcher of contemporary literature. She also taught at the University of the Cloister of Sor Juana and at the UAM Xochimilco. [2]
She is a full member of the House of Ecuadorian Culture and Executive Secretary of the Association of Ecuadorianists in Mexico.
She has been a member of the National System of Researchers of Mexico since 2005.
Her works have been included in the following anthologies
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