
Pilar Quintana is a Colombian writer. She was born in Cali and studied at the Javeriana University in Bogota. In 2011, she attended the International Writing Program of the University of Iowa as a writer-in-residence, and in 2012, the International Writers Workshop of the Baptist University of Hong Kong as a visiting writer. She has published five novels and a short story collection, Caperucita se come al lobo. She is best known for her novels La Perra and Coleccionistas de polvos raros.