Andrea Ferrari Kristeller
The Land Without You & Other Stories
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June 2023
In the rainforest of Misiones, an aged Palo Rosa tree witnesses the arrival and extinction of white people. In a world where trees sing to each other and natives try to hold onto their traditional way of life, a love story develops between two very different beings: a white biologist and a Mbya Guaranà taken by the spirit of a jaguar. Both live at the margins of their respective cultures, creating a brief bridge during apocalyptic times.
The short stories explore the many mysteries that still exist in the rainforest, its past and its possible futures, highlighting the need to respect the jungle and its inhabitants
La tierra sin ustedes y
otros cuentos
September 2023
En la selva de Misiones, un añoso árbol de Palo Rosa es testigo de la llegada y la extinción de los blancos. En un mundo donde los árboles se cantan unos a otros y los habitantes originarios intentan aferrarse a su modo de vida ancestral, se desarrolla una historia de amor entre dos seres muy diferentes: una bióloga blanca y una mbya guaranà tomado por el espÃritu de un yaguareté. Ambos viven al margen de sus respectivas culturas, creando un puente breve en tiempos de nuestro apocalipsis.
Ambientados en un futuro no tan lejano o en el pasado, los cuentos exploran distintas conexiones humanas con la selva, y los muchos misterios que la habitan y merecen ser respetados.
La tierra sin ustedes (nouvelle)
October 2023
Published by Edunam, Misiones University Press, for its collection "Narrathon".
Chosen to represent the province of Misiones at Buenos Aires Book Fair, 2024.
Publicada por Edunam, la editorial de la Universidad de Misiones, en Octubre 2023. Elegida para representar a la provincia de Misiones en la feria del Libro de Bs As, 2024.
Bio
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Andrea Ferrari Kristeller is an English Literature teacher, a naturalist and a poet (who knows in what order).
​She studied Literature at the University of Buenos Aires, translation with Leandro Wolfson; she did an internship at the Buenos Aires Zoo and studied to become a naturalist at EAN (Argentine School for Naturalists). She worked in wildlife rehabilitation for many years at Ribera Norte Natural Reserve, and for Fundación Bioandina in condor rehabilitation at Temaikén. She currently collaborates with several conservation programs in Misiones and other provinces by translating scientific papers or fund soliciting work into English.
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In 2012 she visited Misiones with her family for the first time, and fell in love with its rainforest and the Mbya Guaraní culture. Since then, she has travelled there twice a year, and nurtured a friendship with members of a Mbya village. She collaborated with the First Mbya-Guaraní/Spanish- Spanish Mbya Guaraní Dictionary (Rodas/Benitez, UNAM, 2018) in its Penta translator section, for the English language. She has completed three levels of the Mbya Guaraní language at the Forestry Faculty of Misiones (UNAM), and at the moment she is part of the team that teaches Mbya Guaraní online.
She is currently translating into English the sacred text of the Mbya, the Ayvu Rapyta, in its version by Leon Cadogan, in the hope of helping this culture by raising awareness of its rich spiritual traditions.
Having taught Literature for over 30 years at secondary school levels, she also works within the Roots&Shoots programme from the Jane Goodall Institute with some of her groups.
Some of her poems have been published by The Avocet, The Dawntreader, Erbacce, ASEI Arts II anthology, “Flight of a Feather” anthology, Poetry Undressed, Braided Way, Poppy Road Review, The Heimat Review, SweetSmell, LastStanza, Seaside Gothic, The Winged Moon, Elsewhere, Lothlorien and The Tiger Moth Review. She participated in the Tupelo Press 30x30 challenge in July 2023. Her nouvelle “The Land without You” was given an Honourable mention at Writers of the Future contest (2018), as well as her short story “The Broken Sphere”, (2023). “The Ghost at the Whites’ Hoté” was published in the anthology Haus, by CultureCult Press (2022); “Her turning into a forest” by the magazine Globally Rooted (2023), and “The Ocelot” and “Orion”, by Commuter Lit (2023/2024). Her short story “The Ghosts at Yazá Bridge” was published by 34th Orchard in 2024, while “The Flock”, “Pinus taeda”, “The Myth” and “The Yielding" are to be published by different literary magazines in 2025.
The nouvelle “The Land without You” was published by Edunam, the Province of Misiones’ University Press in Argentina, in October 2023, and was chosen to represent Misiones at the Buenos Aires Book Fair in April 2024. The book was chosen to represent the province of Misiones in the Buenos Aires Book Fair, 2024. Several of her short stories have been published by the newspaper “El Territorio”, the most read in Misiones.
In both 2024 and 2025,she won the Horacio Quiroga International Fiction contest, with the stories “The Drowned” and "Pinus taeda", also published by the aforementioned newspaper.
“The Land Without You and Other stories” was published on Amazon in June 2023, and its Spanish version “La Tierra sin Ustedes”, in September 2023.
At the moment, she is developing a new writing project on trees with the aid of a Creature Conserve scholarship.
