Iris KiyaIris Kiya (La Paz, 1990) is one of the most prolific Bolivian poets of her generation. She studied literature at the Higher University of San Andrés (UMSA) and has participated in poetry festivals in Peru, Chile, Mexico, Ecuador and Bolivia. She is a editor, teaches workshops on literary creation and has organized readings and independent book fairs in schools, universities and psychiatric hospitals. Her work has been published in Bolivia and Chile. Her first poetry book was awarded the young poets prize sponsored by the Bolivian Book Committee and the Pablo Neruda Foundation of Chile. She is the author of the poetry collections: Manicom(n)iofra(g)tal, colección postmortem (2010); 24 cortos y un prólogo en braille para Gelinau Laibach (2013), Masacre en la calle Harrington(2017), Márgenes Infrarrojos. L´image, une forme de violence (2019) and the chapbook En la trinchera (2016). Her latest work, Reconstrucción del Padre (2020), has been awarded the national prize from the Bolivian Central Bank. Read More Read Less