Ivonne Gordon Carrera Andrade, from Quito, Ecuador, is a widely anthologized international award-winning poet, literary critic, translator, and Professor of Spanish and Latin American Literature at the University of Redlands. Her many books include En el tórax de tus ojos (Madrid: Amargord, 2018); Ocurrencias del porvenir (La Plata: Hespérides, 2018); Meditar de sirenas (Sweden: Simon Editor, 2013, Chile: La Trastienda, 2014); El barro blasfemo: Blasphemous Clay(Madrid, Ediciones Torremozas, 2010); Manzanilla del insomnio (Quito: El Conejo Press, 2002), winner of the Jorge Carrera Andrade Award; and Colibríes en el exilio (Quito: El Conejo Press, 1997), a finalist for the Casa de las Américas Prize. Her critical and scholarly work includes essays on Gabriela Mistral, the La Llorona figure, Mario Vargas Llosa, Alicia Yánez Cossío, Tina Juárez, and the marginalization of Ecuadorian literature; as a Fulbright Senior Research Scholar, she worked on “The Trouble of Travels: Jewish Diaspora in Ecuador.” She has twice read at the Library of Congress, as well as at multiple international poetry festivals, and her work has been translated into English, Polish, and Flemish.

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Thanks to the Latin American and Latino Studies Program and the Asociación de Ecuatorianistas.