Inés Arteta is an Argentine award-winning writer. She is a graduate from the University of Buenos Aires with an advanced degree in History. She works as a professor at Universidad del Salvador and leads Literature seminars. Career She taught English as a Second Language at the Instituto Cultural Argentino-North Americano (ICANA) where she soon became the Director of the Youth Department. In 1996 she graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the Universidad de Buenos Aires with an advanced degree in History and in 1997 she completed her masters level degree with a thesis comparing the Argentine and American Independence Processes. After graduation, she taught History, Civic Ethics and History at Saint Andrew`s College in Buenos Aires. She has also directed workshops at EMA (Multiple Sclerosis Organization in Buenos Aires), the Unit 24 of the Penitentiary Service in Florencio Varela and in several other institutions. She wrote non-fiction for the magazine Babia of Lomas de Zamora and for the magazine Bamboo. In addition, she has written as a ghost writer for several clients. She is currently a professor at the University of El Salvador, leads Literature seminars and writes the column "Night Light", for the digital magazine “Pensamientos literarios” (Literary Thoughts), where she analyses fiction. She also writes reviews for “Otra Parte Semanal”. Writer While researching for her undergraduate thesis, Arteta asked her mentor to read a piece of fiction she had written, an apocryphal letter of Artigas, a relevant leader of the Argentine independence process. To her surprise, her mentor took the letter for authentic and the incident encouraged her to continue writing fiction. She began writing short stories that she collected in an unpublished volume, titled The Robbery. Her work focuses on family and couple relationships, gender conflict and social injustice. It is influenced by the North American writers Eudora Welty, Carson McCullers, Flannery O'Connor and Lorrie Moore and the Argentines Silvina Ocampo, Sara Gallardo and Antonio Di Benedetto. Leopoldo Brizuela writes about Arteta: "Like the stories of Chekhov, of Natalia Ginzburg, of Julio Ramón Ribeyro, Inés Arteta's writing remains in your memory for the unmistakable quality of her voice. For her melancholic and implacable tone, for the sincerity and precision of her critique. And above all, for the ear through which she filters her characters’ voices, r the scarcity of their words and also the fierceness that her silences reveal. The world painted by Arteta