Catalina Morales Velez is a creative non-fiction and fiction writer who lives and works in Edmonton, Alberta. A native of Colombia, her work come to life in words and other mediums, such as drawing, comics—the 9th art, and stop-motion.

I write to rediscover myself as a woman. Art, language, self mastery, marketing, social interactions, immigration, cultures, and being human are what feed the stories to unveil my true self. Welcome to my room of one’s own.

Curriculum Vitae

As a child, Catalina always loved to hear and tell stories, an appetite that soon evolved into a profession as she earned a Bachelor’s degree in Communications at the North Catholic University (Universidad Católica del Norte) and honed her skills with diplomas in Marketing and Advertising from the University Institution Esumer and Arts Institute respectively. All while deepening her understanding of how we humans connect and understand each other with a Graduate Diploma from UPB (Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana) that aligns communication, journalism, urban art, and expression—Urban Communications.

Catalina’s work has been featured in magazines in Canada, Colombia and the U.S.A., including Entrepreneur Magazine, Life As A Human Magazine, The Polyglot Magazine, and Revista Cronopio. Her first publication came through Laberinto Press’ Anthology Beyond Touch Sites, where a fragment of her first manuscript, DeepReSeed, is featured. She is a member of the Writer’s Guild of Alberta, serves on the editorial board of The Polyglot Magazine, and LitFest.

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Urban Communication: By using communication, journalism, urban art, and artistic expressions that represent aspects of the traditional culture or the most predominant social movement of a territory, the communication-city relationships transversally traverse art, language, media, social interactions, and humanity itself.