A story recovered from the margins
Set in 1811–1812, the novel follows Inés, a healer from Tilcara, as she enters a clandestine network of women during the wars of independence.
Argentine writer · Scientist
Laura Voglino
Stories shaped by memory, identity, and the landscapes of the Northern Andes.
Author of UNQUY and cofounder of the independent press Opportuna Libri.
Biography
From scientific research to historical fiction
Laura Voglino was born in Argentina and writes historical fiction shaped by memory, identity, and the landscapes of the Northern Andes.
Trained in chemistry and biology, she was a cell biology researcher at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and at Duke University. Her scientific publications explored mitochondrial bioenergetics and protein–membrane interactions.
She later earned an MBA from UNC's Kenan-Flagler Business School and built a career as a global marketing executive at IBM. That combination of research, storytelling, and strategy informs her editorial work.
She is a cofounder of Opportuna Libri, an independent press devoted to stories that cross time, language, and geography. She lives in Durham, North Carolina, with her family.
Her debut novel
UNQUY
Writing, translation, and narration
Laura wrote the novel in Spanish, translated it into English, and narrates the Spanish audiobook with a digital replica of her own voice, created and supervised by her.