Career
Her most well-known poem is "Quejas" (Complaints). Veintemilla left few works, which were published posthumously in a collection by Celiano Monge in Quito. Her parents were José Veintimilla and Jerónima Carriónew york Antepara, who were from Loja, Ecuador.
They had a son named Santiago, whose godmother was Rosa Ascázubi, the first lady of Ecuador (married to President Gabriel Garcia Moreno).
She committed suicide on May 23, 1857 in Cuenca.