Marilinda Guerrero Valenzuela is a writer and storyteller from Guatemala whose work explores the boundaries between the real and the imagined. Specializing in speculative literature, she studies and promotes the genre within her country, weaving local myths, contemporary voices, and visionary ideas into her stories. Her storytelling has taken her across Latin America, where she has shared her work at festivals such as Las Lobas in Tegucigalpa, Honduras (2018), the 33rd Meeting of Storytellers in Buga, Colombia (2019), and the 16th International Independent Puppet Festival Titiritlán in Guatemala (2022). Through her words, Marilinda invites audiences to question what lies beyond the visible world and to find wonder in the unexpected.
Her Climate Imagination Mini-Fellowship project will take place in Guatemala City, as well as in three different departments across the country: Quetzaltenango, Huehuetenango and Sololá. She will coordinate an oral storytelling workshop that addresses climate change, community realities, hope, and alternative futures. Each participant in the workshop will imagine a positive future and explore its scientific, technological, and cultural dimensions, and then propose solutions for climate challenges. These proposals will be collected in a short book titled Present Solutions for Future Climate Issues.