Valeria Varas is a Chilean-Costa Rican anthropologist, writer and graphic designer. She belongs to the Costa Rican Writers Association and the Chilean Writers Society. She has written poems, stories, essays, prose and theater; in addition, articles and didactic material for indigenous women and children. She has published seven collections of poems and poems in compilations in Mexico, Spain, Chile and Costa Rica, with translations into Czech, French and English. She has written short stories in anthologies in Guatemala and Spain. In Chile she published a testimonial book and a youth book. Author of three plays: A Theater in Paradise, translated into English; Flights at sea, with dramatized readings in Costa Rica and Norway; and the monologue Mi Paulina, staged in Costa Rica.
She has obtained the Award for the best book cover, Editorial Universitaria Centroamericana, EDUCA, 1983; the National Award for the best book cover, Editorial Costa Rica, 1983, and the Central American Logo Award, Central American Higher University Council, CSUCA, 1997.
The Central American Association of Relatives of the Detained-Disappeared, ACAFADE, awarded her recognition in 1990 for her support for the fight against the forced disappearance of persons and for the defense of life and human rights.