Peruvian columnist since 1996  (“El Comercio”, “Orbe magazine”, “Perú21”) a writer with 2 works of fiction (“From Paris to Patagonia” and “Social Climbing”) and an autobiography (“Memoirs of a transgressor”) Maki is a traveler but never a tourist.  “I travel guided by affection. I go to visit the people I love and return to the places that enchant me”.  Born in Lima she went on and invented herself a life that took her halfway around the world both geographically and culturally. 

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A Peruvian chola with Panamanian blood, educated in Switzerland with a rigorous Cartesian mindframe, she is a tri cultural woman straddling two Continents and several countries.  After politics robs her of her childhood in the faraway grey mists of the Pacific in Lima, the jungle is just steps away from the large house in Panama where she lands in exile and from where she will wander off in quest of knowledge and a world she suspects holds more.   After she graduates as a French Litt teacher she is ready to drop anchor almost anywhere.  Adult life develops in fits and starts.  Beginning with a well-intended but miscast effort in Peru,  she moves on to spend a serene stay in Geneva, followed by a very intense one in New York and  a long, rich stint in Paris to finally end up, for the time being,  at the foot of the Andes.

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This blog is her first attempt at the digital world.