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Gioconda Belli (born 1948 in Managua) is a Nicaraguan author, poet and novelist. She sympathized with her country's leftist revolutionary organization, the Sandinistas, but went into exile in Mexico in 1975. In 1988, her book La Mujer Habitada (The Inhabited Woman), a semi-autobiographical novel that raised gender issues for the first time in the Nicaraguan revolutionary narratives, brought Belli increase attention. She has published three other novels: Sofía de los Presagios (1990), Waslala, Memorial del Futuro (1996), and El Pergamino de la Seducción (2005). In 2000, she published her autobiography, emphasizing her involvement in the revolutionary movement, El país bajo mi piel, published under the name "The Country Under My Skin" in the United States. Belli continues publishing and she maintains that poetry is her most important work. She has been living in Managua and Los Angeles since 1990.
