Venezuelan poet, scholar and translator born in Italy. PhD in
Comparative Literature, University of São Paulo. Professor of the
Universidad Central de Venezuela where she founded the Women´s
Studies. Translator of poetry and essays by Italian, Venezuelan
and Brazilian writers, such as Antonia Palacios, Enrique Bernardo
Núñez, Oswald de Andrade, Antonio Candido, Giuseppe Ungaretti,
Claudio Magris, among others. She has received award for her poetry
and her literary research, including the Poetry Award "José Antonio
Ramos Sucre" (Venezuela, 1995), a Fulbright Scholarship (USA,
1998), and the LASA Award (USA, 2007) for editing the volume
La ansiedad autorial. In 2010 she was a writer-in-residence at the
Chateau de Lavigny International Writer´s Residence. Currently,
she is a Professor of Latin American Literature at the University of
Massachusetts, Amherst, where she also teaches Creative Writing in
Spanish. Recent book (selected essays): Cantabile. Celebración de la
poesía latinoamericana (Madrid, 2020).
