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Ariel Florencia Richards

Ariel Florencia Richards is a writer and researcher. A cultural editor for numerous imprints and collaborator for Artishock, Richards is the author of two novels, Las olas son las mismas (2016, republished in 2021) and Inacabada (2023), as well as a non-fiction book on Gordon Matta-Clark (2024).

She is a researcher for the Memory Studies Association and an associate researcher for the Archive Fictions project at the University of Chile (UC). Richards teaches writing and architecture at the Universidad de las Américas and is a PhD candidate at the UC, researching the relationship between performance, space, and archives.

 

Articles by Ariel Florencia Richards

Painting by Frida Kahlo. A brown and green dress hands on a washing line against a city backdrop. A toilet features prominently to the left.
Unfinished (Inacabada) by Ariel Florencia Richards, trans. by Beth Hickling-Moore
In this moving fiction by Ariel Florencia Richards, a young woman reflects on the 'cumulative' silence surrounding her transition, and its cold, creeping impact on her relationship with her mother. While contained in the liminal space of an aeroplane above the Andes, the protagonist's mind drifts from the alienation of her Christian childhood to the present. Translated from Chilean Spanish by Beth Hickling-Moore.
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