Ana Teresa Torres

Ana Teresa Torres (born 6 July 1945) is a Venezuelan novelist, essayist and short story writer. Her writing, both fiction and non-fiction, is often concerned with Venezuelan history and politics, memory, gender, and psychoanalysis.

Life Torres was born in Caracas, Venezuela, and is a trained psychoanalyst. She studied psychology at Universidad Católica Andrés Bello in Caracas from 1964 to 1968, and gained a postgraduate qualification from the Centro de Salud Mental del Este de Caracas from 1970 to 1973. She has taught courses on both psychology and creative writing.

From 2006 to 2010, she coordinated the Semana de Nueva Narrativa Urbana (Week of New Urban Writing) with Héctor Torres, which led to the anthologies De la urba para el orbe (2006), Quince que cuentan (2008) and Tiempos de la ciudad (2010).

On 16 January 2006, Torres took up seat F in the Academia venezolana de la lengua (Venezuelan Academy of the Language).