Ana Cofiño

Ana María Cofiño Kepfer (born 1955) is a Guatemalan researcher, anthropologist, editor, and historian. She is the founder and co-editor of the feminist magazine La Cuerda and the bookstore El Pensativo. She is a prominent activist in favor of women's rights, gender equality, and the defense of indigenous communities from expropriation by the state and foreign companies.

Biography Ana Cofiño was born in a conservative and anti-communist Guatemalan family. She studied at a Catholic school for "well-off" girls, at which time she participated in the movement called CRATER, made up of young people who were involved in social programs as part of the church's renewal movement. She came into contact with Guatemalan exiles, among them writers such as and the feminist Alaíde Foppa.

In 1987 she returned to Guatemala with the expectation that the Vinicio Cerezo government, in which there were many women working, would represent a transformation for the country. She opened the Pensativo Bookstore in Antigua, where she began to publish works by Guatemalan and Central American authors.

Cofiño graduated with an anthropology degree from the Universidad de San Carlos when she concluded research on the feelings of Kaqchikel women on the exhumation of San Juan Comalapa.

Publications 2008 – Emma Chirix conversa con Ana Cofiño. Colección Pensamiento. 2012 – Nosotras, las de la Historia. Mujeres en Guatemala (siglos XIX–XXI). Various authors. Edited by Ana Cofiño and Rosalinda Hernández Alarcón.