Memory of the Species

Venezuelan poet, scholar and translator born in Italy. PhD in

Comparative Literature, University of São Paulo. Professor of the

Universidad Central de Venezuela where she founded the Women´s

Studies. Translator of poetry and essays by Italian, Venezuelan

and Brazilian writers, such as Antonia Palacios, Enrique Bernardo

Núñez, Oswald de Andrade, Antonio Candido, Giuseppe Ungaretti,

Claudio Magris, among others. She has received award for her poetry

and her literary research, including the Poetry Award "José Antonio

Ramos Sucre" (Venezuela, 1995), a Fulbright Scholarship (USA,

1998), and the LASA Award (USA, 2007) for editing the volume

La ansiedad autorial. In 2010 she was a writer-in-residence at the

Chateau de Lavigny International Writer´s Residence. Currently,

she is a Professor of Latin American Literature at the University of

Massachusetts, Amherst, where she also teaches Creative Writing in

Spanish. Recent book (selected essays): Cantabile. Celebración de la

poesía latinoamericana (Madrid, 2020).