Mónica Soto Icaza
Mónica Soto Icaza is a Chilean writer and visual artist known for her work in erotic literature and self-representation through photography. She has built her career outside traditional publishing, choosing self-publication as a deliberate act of creative and personal freedom. Writing originally in Spanish, she approaches eroticism as a serious literary vocation, marked by careful attention to language, rhythm, structure, and punctuation.
Her work seeks to reclaim the female body from a long male-dominated literary tradition, presenting desire not as transgression but as knowledge, autonomy, and lived experience. Alongside her writing, Soto Icaza uses her own photographic images as an extension of her artistic project, asserting authorship over both the gaze and the body represented.
Over more than fifteen years of publishing, she has established herself as an independent feminist voice in contemporary erotic literature, rejecting censorship, apology, and moral justification. For Soto Icaza, eroticism is not provocation but a way of inhabiting the world with awareness, freedom, and aesthetic intention.