Gabriela Ponce (Quito, 1977) is a fiction writer, playwright, and theater director, as well as a professor of performing arts at the Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador. In 2019, she published the novel Sanguínea (Severo Editorial; also published in Spain by Editorial Candaya), which was awarded the Joaquín Gallegos Lara National Fiction Prize by the Municipality of Quito for best novel of the year. She is part of Mitómana, a performing arts collective, and is cofounder of the cultural venue Casa Mitómana. She is on the editorial board of Sycorax magazine.