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Guadalupe passed away on January 25, 2015, in Santiago, after a long struggle with cancer. After she passed, the posthumous work Esta Parcela was published.

Guadalupe was part of the First International Congress of Latin American Feminine Literature (Sp. Primer Congreso Internacional de Literatura Femenina), which started on Monday, August 17th, 1987, where topics such as literary criticism, feminist theory, literature and patriarchy, Latin American poetry and narrative, strategies of feminine discourse, meetings of writers from other countries and poetic recitals, were discussed. This congress made  the inclusion of women's discourses and writings in the public-intellectual sphere possible. Congress where Guadalupe's work was also considered as: "a need to territorialize writing in a footprint that seeks to recompose the paths of memory." She also collaborated in several publications at Nomadías magazine (Cegecal, Universidad de Chile), as well as participating in several collective publications, such as: Mujeres chilenas: fragmentos de una historia; Pulsiones estéticas: escrituras de mujeres en Chile; Escrituras de la diferencia sexual y Samaritanas, mediadoras y guardianas.

After the exile, Guadalupe moved to Belgium, a country she previously knew. There, she continued studying, but this time, the engraving career at the Academy of Fine Arts in Liège until 1985, the year which she returned to Chile.

Guadalupe studied in Chile, specifically at colegio Jeanne D'Arc, where she finished her elementaries studies (4to Medio). After this, she started her university studies at Universidad Catolica to study Philosophy. She studied until she was arrested by the political police of the 1973 coup d'état. So, she was exiled.

Guadalupe Santa Cruz (September 29, 1952 – January 25, 2015), also known as Lupe Santa Cruz, was an American writer, philosopher, visual artist and translator. She is considered one of the most energetic and varied protagonists of a generation of writers that emerged after the period of the 1973 Coup d'État in Chile. Author of numerous books, including Plasma, with which she received two important prizes in Chile: the Premio Novela Inédita Consejo Nacional del Libro y la Lectura and the Premio atenea. Also, in 2004, Plasma received the prize of the Book Council as a novel in the unpublished category. In addition, at the international level, she received the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation fellowship  in 1998.

Guadalupe Santa Cruz was born in 1952 in Orange, New Jersey, a small city in the United States. She was born to immigrant parents; an American mother and Chilean father.