Marvel Moreno was born in Colombia, in 1939. As a teenager she read the great writers, including Virginia Woolf and William Faulkner, who came to bear a definitive influence upon her writing. She had a close relationship with the members of the “Barranquilla Group” including Gabriel García Márquez. December Breeze was a finalist in the Plaza y Janés International Literary Prize and in 1989 she received the Grinzane-Cavour Prize. She died in 1995.