AUTHOR OF THE LONG ROOM
Inés Corvalán
Inés Corvalán is a memoirist whose unhurried prose explores how the quiet work of healing echoes across generations.
About
Meet Inés
Inés Corvalán crafts narratives that illuminate the intricate landscapes of personal history.
Inés Corvalán was born in Buenos Aires and raised between Argentina and the American Southwest. Her essays on memoir, family, and personal healing have appeared in The Sun, Guernica, and The Rumpus, and her wellness column ran for four years in a national women's monthly.
Her debut memoir grew from a decade of journals kept during her mother's long illness — a self-help of sorts, though she resists the term, offered instead as one honest account of what it takes to become, quietly, a person of your own.
She lives in Santa Fe with her partner and two rescued desert dogs, and teaches a small workshop each spring on writing the personal.
The Book
The Long Room
Her debut memoir offers an intimate journey into the heart of family and self-discovery.
A memoir of family, memory, and quiet healing
In prose that reviewers have called luminous and unhurried, The Long Room traces one daughter's decade beside her mother's illness — a personal memoir about the wellness we invent when the world stops offering it, and the small, ordinary acts of healing that outlast grief. A tender, self-help-adjacent story for anyone doing the private work of becoming whole.
Praise
Kind words from readers
Reviewers and readers alike have embraced her distinctive voice.
“A memoir of astonishing tenderness. Corvalán writes about family and healing with a stillness I have not encountered in years.”
“The rare wellness-adjacent book that never sells you anything — only offers, with great generosity, an honest life.”
“Personal, beautifully paced, and quietly transformative.”
Speaking
Book a keynote
Inés reads and speaks at festivals, libraries, and book clubs — evenings built around the book and the conversation that follows.
- Writing the family story without betraying it
- Memory, distance, and the shape of a memoir
- Reading and conversation: an evening with Inés
- For book clubs: the questions the book leaves open