Tatiana de la tierra

De la tierra passed away on July 31, 2012, some time after being diagnosed with stage 4 cancer. Her papers and unpublished materials were donated to the University of California, Los Angeles.

After a while, Esto no tiene nombre and Conmoción ceased publication due to a lack of funding. 1999, she earned her Master's of Fine Arts in creative writing from the University of Texas at El Paso De la tierra also earned a Master's of Library Science from the University at Buffalo in 2000. Shortly after earning her second master's degree, she began her Jean Blackwell Hutson Library Residency at the University at Buffalo's undergraduate library. Two years later, she was hired by that same library as an information literacy librarian. Later, she moved to California, where she became the director of Hispanic Services at Inglewood Public Library.

De la tierra stated she reportedly knew she was attracted to women around the time she reached the age of 10 or 11, but did not come out as a lesbian until 1982.

De la tierra attended Miami-Dade Community College and received her associate degree in 1981. There, she worked as a library assistant. She later attended the University of Florida, where she earned her bachelor's degree in psychology in 1984. In the 1990s, de la tierra began editing and publishing Esto no tiene nombre, which later became known as Conmoción.

Tatiana de la tierra (May 14, 1961 – July 31, 2012) was a Columbian writer, poet and activist. She was the author of the first international Latina lesbian magazine Esto no tiene nombre.

Tatiana de la tierra was born in Villavicencio, Colombia on May 14, 1961. She emigrated to the US in 1969 at the age of eight. Her family settled in Homestead, Florida. At her elementary school, de la tierra volunteered to help in the school library.