María Ángeles Pérez López

Invitado de Honor

(Valladolid, Spain, 1967)  Poet and teacher at the Universidad de Salamanca, where she works on contemporary Spanish poetry.

As a poet, she has received several awards, including the Premio Nacional de la Crítica for Incendio mineral (2021, Vaso Roto) and the awards of the Fundación Centro de Poesía José Hierro and Meléndez Valdés de Poesía for Libro mediterráneo de los muertos (2023, Pre-Textos).

Anthologies of her work have been published in Caracas, Mexico City, Quito, New York, Monterrey, Bogotá, Lima and Buenos Aires. Also, in bilingual editions, in Italy and Portugal. In 2024, the Piedra del desconcierto antohology was published in Honduras, and in Spain the poetic essay La belleza de la materia.

Her book Carnalidad del frío has been published in a bilingual edition in Brazil and the United States. The New York Poetry Press edition (Carnality of Cold) received the Mention of Honor at the 2023 International Latino Book Awards.

She has published and written prologues for numerous works, including Teresa de Jesús.“Las Moradas” y siete diálogos actuales (2022, Vaso Roto).

She is part of the Asociación Genialogías, and is committed to recognizing the legacy of poets. She is a corresponding member of the North American Academy of the Spanish Language, an honorary member of the Nicaraguan Academy, an honorary citizen of Fontiveros, and a member of the Academia de Juglares de Fontiveros, the birthplace of Saint John of the Cross.

She has been on the jury of numerous literary awards in Spain and several American countries, including the Reina Sofía Prize for Iberoamerican Poetry and the Cervantes Prize.

Other activities involving the participant:

Meetings (and misunderstandings). Santa Teresa de Jesús and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. Beloved sisters

Luis Armenta Malpica

(México, 1961)

He is a poet, essayist and director of Mantis Editores. Jalisco Prize in Letters in 2008 and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz International Literature prize in 2013, among many others; the most current ones are the Carlos Pellicer Ibero-American Fine Arts Poetry Prize for Published Work (2020), Minerva Margarita Villarreal Ibero-American Poetry Prize (2021) and Iguana de Oro by the Huston Chair of Cinema and Literature at the University of Guadalajara (2022). He is a member of the National System of Art Creators. His most recent titles are [Contra] Dicción (UANL, 2022), Esto no es un bestiario (Tedium Vitae, 2023) and Enola Gay (Broken Glass, Spain, 2024, in bilingual edition).

Other activities involving the participant:

Poetry Room