Authors & Headliners

Catalina Morales Velez is a creative non-fiction and fiction writer who lives and works in Edmonton, Alberta. A native of Colombia, her life and work traverse art, language, media, marketing, social interactions, and being human.

Despite being rooted in words, her creations come to life in other mediums, such as drawing, the 9th art–comics, and stop-motion.

As a child, she always loved to hear and tell stories, an appetite that soon evolved into a profession as she earned a Bachelor’s degree in Communications at the North Catholic University (Universidad Catolica del Norte) and honed her skills with diplomas in Marketing and Advertising from the University Institution Esumer and Arts Institute respectively. All while deepening her understanding of how we humans connect and understand each other with a Graduate Diploma from UPB (Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana) that aligns communication, journalism, urban art, and artistic expressions—Urban Communications.

Catalina’s work has been featured in magazines in Colombia, Canada, and the U.S.A., including Entrepreneur Magazine, Life As A Human Magazine, The Polyglot Magazine, and Revista Cronopio. Her first publication is featured in Beyond Touch Sites: an Anthology of the Tangible by Laberinto Press. She is a member of the Writers’ Guild of Alberta, serves on the editorial board of The Polyglot Magazine, and LitFest.

You can learn more about her on her website: catalinamoralesv.com