Emma Villazón

The work of acclaimed Bolivian poet EMMA VILLAZÓN (Santa Cruz de la Sierra, 1983 – El Alto, La Paz, 2015) marked a generation. She published two poetry collections, Fábulas de una caída (CDL, 2007, National New Writers’ Prize) and Lumbre de ciervos (Editorial La Hoguera, 2013). With Andrés Ajens she co-edited the journal Mar con soroche. Villazón was a noted conference and festival organizer, critic, interviewer, and scholar of poetics and aesthetics.