María Fernanda Chávez Guiñez (Inia Gwath) is an independent scholar who runs Books from Faeries, formerly known as “Books from Fangorn”. She reads among the trees and discovers books through their leaves when she is not writing or studying. She has a creative soul who loves nature and volunteering in educational and environmental non-profit organizations.
𝑉𝑜𝑙𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔
María Fernanda is very proud to have volunteered in numerous non-profit organizations.
She is currently a volunteer in two non-profit organizations:
- Te Protejo, is a cruelty-free organization based in Chile.
- The Tolkien Society, is an international educational organization.
𝑨𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕
𝑆𝑡𝑢𝑑𝑖𝑒𝑠
She studied English Literature and Linguistics at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, a professional career that lasted four years in her country. Additionally, she has an Art History minor, and, some studies in archaeology and anthropology, at the already-mentioned university.
She is currently pursuing a MA in Archaeology at Universidad de Chile.
𝐴𝑐𝑎𝑑𝑒𝑚𝑖𝑐 𝑇𝑎𝑙𝑘𝑠
- At Oxonmoot 2020, she gave a talk on feminism and J.R.R. Tolkien’s works, focussing on Ungoliant and Shelob.
𝐴𝑐𝑎𝑑𝑒𝑚𝑖𝑐 𝑃𝑢𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠
- Author of The Call of the Spiders: A Feminist Reading of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Ungoliant and Shelob. The talk was given at Oxonmoot 2020, and the paper can be found here.
- Co-author of “International Interactions with Tolkien – A Roundtable” published by File 770. Which is available here.
𝐶𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑃𝑎𝑡𝘩
- Author of two poems, “To a flower”, and, “The Selkie” published in Antología poética de Letras: edición inglés & español (2021).
- Editor of The Oxonmoot Anthology of Poetry for The Tolkien Society. Her poem, “Gollum and the Ring” was also included in the 2020 version.
- Online poems published at All Poetry, since 2014, under her penname Inia Gwath.
- She has also written in the Hispanic fansite inspired by J.R. R. Tolkien’s works, El Poney Pisador, under the penname Laurë Anárion.
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