Juliana Marin Fryling

Juliana Marin (aka @AchiraStories) is a nomadic traditional storyteller from Colombia who’s travelled the world with barely any money. She’s hitchhiked ambulances, sat with shamans in the Amazon, lost all her stories and been found by them again—all this, to bring you a story, so that you will go out and live your own.

A graduate of the Vivapalabra Storytelling School in Medellín, her travels are funded almost entirely by telling stories along the way, whether it’s at a festival in Morocco, a streetcorner in Scotland or atop a pyramid in Mexico. She’s currently (2023) in Europe, working her way east.

From the magical realism of García Márquez to true accounts of her life on the Road; from goddesses to ghosts to indigenous wisdom, achira stories may break your heart or knit it back together, but they’ll always make you think.