In my previous post about the poetry of Eliana Maldonado Cano, I mentioned that an epigraph to one of her poems came from the work of Laura Victoria, pseudonym of Gertrudis Peñuela, a twentieth-century Colombian poet. I was intrigued by the epigraph (“Come closer, / Bite into my skin / With your dark hands”), and decided to follow my curiosity with this post in order to learn more about the poet behind the pseudonym.