Viviana Irene LYSYJ is the author of a collection of short stories, Erotopolis, Erotic Rocks (Buenos Aires: Ediciones La Flor, 1994). She studied literature at the University of Buenos Aires, and teaches French at the language laboratory of that University and at several secondary schools. She has worked for cultural magazines such as Cultura Diario Sur, Revista con V. de Vian, Relatos El Libertino, and also worked for a section of the Pagina 12 newspaper. The Fundacion Antorchas is providing her fellowship.