Ivonne GordonIvonne Gordon Carrera Andrade (Quito, Ecuador). She did her doctoral thesis on: Femininity as mask. A study of the poetic work of GabrielaMistral. She is a poet, essayist, literary critic and translator. Professor of Latin American literature at the niversity of Redlands, United States. Among the most recent awards, 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). Her poetry is recorded at the Library of Congress in the United States. 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 poetry 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. Read More Read Less