Catalina Infante Beovic

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Catalina Infante Beovic is a Chilean writer, publisher, and co-owner of Librería Catalonia in Chile. Author of three books of stories about the Indigenous peoples of Chile and the short-story collection Todas somos una misma sombra, Infante Beovic made her English-language debut with “Ferns” (a 2020 Pushcart Prize nominee) in World Literature Today. The Cracks We Bear (World Editions, 2025) is her first full-length novel translated into English, forthcoming in November 2025.

Ways We Survive (or How Fiction Helps Us to Understand Violence)

October 14, 2025 Catalina Infante Beovic
Looking at the work of three writers—Han Kang, Mariana Enríquez, and Margaret Atwood—Catalina Infante Beovic finds stories that allow readers to freely exorcize the fears inherent to our times.…
Like Creeping Lava

July 2022
Catalina Infante Beovic
In the following essay, the author explores the apathy she finds even within herself in the face of a gradually expanding drought in Chile, the country most affected by the water crisis in Latin…
The Forest of Puerto Varas

Autumn 2021
Catalina Infante Beovic
Photo by Trevor Vannoy on Unsplash THE CITY—rainy, with moody skies and smoke rising from the rooftops—gazes at the yawning lake that protects her, as if searching for someth…
Ferns

June 8, 2020 Catalina Infante Beovic
Photo: Quentin Lagache / Unsplash In this story of lengthy quarantine due to an unnamed virus, a woman sneaks into the mountain to collect ferns—many ferns. Simultaneously evoking life un…