Yanaguana volume 1, issue 2 spring/summer 2026 a literary journal from San Antonio, Texas

Liliana Wilson

dark-haired boy in white shirt and pants, sitting arms folded on drawn-up knees, forehead resting on arms, eyes closed, in small wooden boat floating on nameless gray water, in background gulf of gray sky speckled with five-pointed stars

Niño sin planeta

large pink balloon with attached gondola floats against gray background, with woman figure, facing away, stands inside gondola, wears a white dress, long brunette hair tied with simple barrette cascades down her back

The journey to nowhere

smiling dark-haired red-lipped girl with bluedrop earrings wearing a luminescent white dress standing in field of red and white daisies with a white butterfly touching on the tip of index finger of her upraised left arm and hand

Dibujo de paz para tiempos de guerra

About the Artist

A visual artist best known for her intricate drawings with surrealistic renderings, Liliana Wilson was born in Valparaíso, Chile, where she began drawing at the age of eight. She immigrated to the United States in 1977 and pursued studies in art at Texas State University. Her medium is color pencil on paper or illustration board or acrylic on canvas, panel or illustration board. Liliana’s history of artistic expressions is the subject of a book edited by Dr. Norma E. Cantú titled Ofrenda: Liliana Wilson’s Art of Dissidence and Dreams (Texas A&M Press, 2015).

Liliana’s art is in the collection of many institutions including the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, Texas, the San Antonio Museum of Art, La Peña Latino Arts Organization in Austin, the Benson Latin American Collection at the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Texas at San Antonio Libraries Special Collections, as well as in private collections.

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