Ivonne Gordon Carrera Andrade (Quito, Ecuador). She did her doctoral thesis on: Femininity as mask. A study of the poetic work of Gabriela Mistral. She is a poet, essayist, literary critic and translator. Professor of Latin American literature at the University of Redlands, United States. In 2023 Along with José Luis García Herrera she received the prestigious Pilar Fernández Labrador Award for Ibero American poets in Salamanca, Spain, with her anonymous manuscript, Itinerary of Intimate Things; the I Poet in New York, Poetry Prize, Ediciones Valparaíso, USA; International Poetry Prize Hespérides (Argentina); Poetry Prize, Jorge Carrera Andrade (Ecuador); finalist of the Extraordinary Prize Casa de las Américas (Cuba); finalist of the International Poetry Prize Francisco de Aldana (Spain); finalist Andrés Bello Prize (Spain); Honorable Mention Academia Oriente-Occidente (Romania).  She has published more than a dozen books, her more recent books have been widely recognized including Water House/Casa de agua (bilingual ed., Valparaiso USA, 2021); Diosas prestadas (Torremozas, Spain, 2019); El tórax de tus ojos (Amargord, Spain, 2018); Her poetry is recorded at the Library of Congress in the United States. She has been a Keynote Speaker at several universities in the United States. She has been invited to the most important international poetry festivals, her poetry is included in numerous anthologies worldwide. Her work has been translated into English, Romanian, Greek and Polish. She has published numerous academic articles on Latin American literature for international dissemination. Among her academic awards, she was awarded a Fullbright scholarship to research on the Conversos in Ecuador. Her poetic production is of interest to leading scholars of poetry, there are important academic studies on her poetic work. Several international congresses on literature have dedicated panels to the study of her poetic trajectory.