I was born in Lima, Peru, in 1971. My mother and father were journalists and social activists who would read every night and gather with friends several times a week to discuss their readings. In my childhood, my aunts and uncles used to take me to their own classes at their college, to political meetings on the street, and to concerts to protest against the brutality of the dictatorship. With my early eight or nine years old, I was always with them, looking foward to exciting and interesting events. One of the things that I liked the most, is when my young aunts used to take me to poetry readings and book presentations of their many writers' friends. I feel that these experiences gave me the motivation to start writing.