Bio

Andrea Cote is the author of the poetry collections: Puerto Calcinado/Port in Ashes (2003), The Ruin that I name (2010) Chinatown 24/7 (2017) and En las Praderas In the Prairies of the end of the world. She has also published books of prose: A Nude Photographer: A Biography of Tina Modotti and Blanca Varela or Writing from Solitude. She has obtained the following recognitions: The National Prize of Poetry from the Universidad Externado of Colombia (2003), the Puentes de Struga International Poetry Prize (2005), the Cittá de Castrovillari Prize (2010) to the Italian edition of Port in Ashes and the International Latino Book Award (2020) Her poems have been translated into English, French, German, Catalan, Italian, Portuguese, Macedonian, Arabic, Polish, Russian and Greek. She has translated into Spanish the poets Kahlil Gibran, Tracy K. Smith and Jericho Brown. She is a Professor of Creative Writing at the Bilingual M.F.A. at UTEP.