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
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)
Published by Edunam, Misiones University Press in October 2023.
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.
Short Bio
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Andrea Ferrari Kristeller is an English Literature teacher, a naturalist and a poet (who knows in what order).
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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 this language online with a Mbya Guaraní teacher for that faculty. 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.
She has taught Literature for over 40 years at a secondary school level, she is now retired but continues her teaching practice within the Roots & Shoots programme from the Jane Goodall Institute at one of her schools.
She writes poetry on nature in English, and her poems and short stories have been published by several magazines and books in the US, Canada and the UK (The Weekly Avocet, The Avocet, The Dawntreader, Erbacce, Poetry Undressed, Braided Way, an ASEI Arts anthology, The Poppy Road Review, The Heimat Review ).
The English version of The Land without You has received an Honourable Mention at The Writers of the Future Sci-Fi and Fantasy literary contest in 2018.
She also writes eco-fiction short stories. "The Ghost at the White's Hoté" was published by Haus, a CultureCult anthology in 2022, "Her turning into a Forest", was published by Globally Rooted in January 2023, and "The Ocelot" appeared in CommuterLit in April 2023. In 2024, 34 Orchard published "The Ghosts at the Yazá Bridge" in April, and New Myths is publishing "The Flock" in 2025.
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She lives in Buenos Aires with her family.
