Lorena Fernández Abdo is a writer and journalist from Quito, Ecuador. Her writing trajectory began in the United States as a local journalist in Los Angeles, then extended to Quito, where she wrote for a national daily in the Sports, Culture, and Gastronomy sections. She has lived in six countries across four continents, and written for a variety of print and online publications in Spanish and English. Nothing is more interesting to Lorena than food, its providence, and how people use it to understand their place in the world.