Literary fiction · Aesthetic longevity · Wellbeing · Clinical nonfiction
Alexandra Mora Hernández
Alexandra Mora Hernández is a physician, facial plastic surgeon, and writer. She works with two instruments that appear to have nothing in common: the scalpel and the pen. As a facial plastic surgeon, she has spent more than thirty years observing human behaviour with precision, and the stories that leave their mark on a face. As a writer, she has devoted almost as long to practising the opposite incision.
She lives and works in Bogotá, where medicine and writing have become, for her, two ways of asking the same questions about identity, beauty, and time.
She is a daughter, a mother, a sister, an aunt, a grandmother, a mother-in-law, a sister-in-law and a friend. She travels whenever she can. She unwinds by the sea, in sunsets that refuse to end, among horses, mountains and forests, or at a table where a game of cards runs on, like the best conversations, far longer than intended.
“I am not trying to stop time. I would rather decide what is worth keeping.”
Her novels move through different territories—memory, perception, secrecy, desire and uncertainty—creating worlds with a distinctly visual and cinematic sensibility, while returning to a persistent question: what remains of a person when circumstances, appearance or the way others see them begins to change?
Her nonfiction explores aesthetic longevity, wellbeing and clinical decision-making through a structured and critical perspective, far removed from quick formulas.
Her Library brings these worlds together without trying to make them the same. Fiction, aesthetic longevity, wellbeing and clinical thought coexist as different ways of looking at human identity.
- Work
- Ten works · literary fiction, aesthetic longevity, wellbeing and clinical nonfiction
- City
- Bogotá, Colombia
- Imprint
- Alexandra Mora Library