Alejandra Moffat (Chile, 1982) is a writer, playwright, and screenwriter. She has written the novels El hacedor de camas (Sangría, 2011) and Mambo (Montacerdos, 2022), which won second place in Chile's 2023 Ministry of Culture Prize for Best Published Novels. As a playwright, she has won Chile's National Playwriting exposition with "Buffalito que camina con jeans apretados y chaqueta de cuero" and "Recuerdos de cosas que duelen."

She has co-written the films Los hiperbóreos, Cuaderno de nombres, and La Casa Lobo by León & Cociña; Cuando las nubes esconden la sombra by José Luis Torres Leiva; 1976 by Manuela Martelli; Antitropical by Camila José Donoso; La muñeca de fuego by Niles Atallah; and Morir de pie by María Paz González, among others. Films she has written premiered in the Cannes Film Festival's Directors' Fortnight, Berlinale's Forum, the Jeonju Film Festival, the San Sebastián Festival's Horizones Latinos, the Rotterdam International Film Festival, and elsewhere. They have received awards at Berlinale, the Havana International Film Festival, London's BFI, Cinema Tropical, Aneccy, the Lima International Film Festival, Premios Platino, the Valdivia International Film Festival, and elsewhere.

Her stories have been included in the anthologies Vivir Allá (Ventana Abierta, 2017), Nada (Alacraña, 2019), and Avisa cuando llegues (Bifurcaciones, 2020). She contributed to the book Ignacio Agüero: dos o tres cosas que sabemos de él (UNAM, 2017). 

BY ALEJANDRA MOFFAT:

MAMBO
NOVEL, 2022
El hacedor de camas
NOVEL, 2011