Iliana Pichardo Urrutia (Salt Lake City, Utah, 1980) is a writer, screenwriter, and documentary filmmaker. She grew up in Mexico City, where she studied Communication and Creative Writing, and earned a MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Texas in El Paso, where she currently works as an adjunct professor of creative writing.

Her work explores themes of identity, motherhood, migration, and memory. She has collaborated as a screenwriter on projects for Plataforma/Turner Latin America and Orismo/Disney+, and has received several grants and awards for her work as a writer and screenwriter.

Her texts have appeared in Revista de la Universidad, Rio Grande Review, SmokeLong Quarterly, and Tierra Adentro. Her bilingual collection of poems Todo lo que fue futuro/All That Was Future was translated by Kadiri J. Vaquer Fernández and published by Mouthfeel Press in 2024.