ACADEMIC PREPARATION
1981 PhD in Spanish Literature, University of Washington, Seattle.
1982 MA in Latin American Literature, University of Washington, Seattle.
1971 Certified Spanish Teacher, Catholic University of Chile, Temuco.
1972-73 Studies in Philology at the University of Valdivia, Valdivia, Chile.
PROFESSIONAL LITERARY EXPERIENCE
2010 Literary tour on Managua, Nicaragua. Sponsored by Foro Nicaragűense de Cultura, Marzo.
2009 Writer’s Residency Award at the Santa Fe Arts Institute.
2008 Literary tour of Chile with poet Carolyne Wright in Chile, sponsored by Seattle-Chile Partners of the Americas Organization.
2008 Conference series: “The Spanish American Narrative,” dictated with Javier Amaya (Colombia) y Eugenia Toledo (Chile).
2007 Reading class: “To the End of the World with Pablo Neruda” with Carolyne Wright, fall quarter at Richard Hugo House, Seattle; (Seven sessions).
2006 Poetry class: “Poetry as a Form of Looking,” fall quarter at Richard Hugo House, Seattle.
POETRY READINGS
2010 Poetry Reading event at Elliott Bay Book Store, Seattle, Poem in Anthology New poets of the American West, Many Voices Press, Flathead Valley Community College, 520 PP. Edited by Lowell Jaeger.
2010 Poetry reading event at Missoula’s Book Fair, University of Missoula. Poem in Anthology I go to the Ruined Place, Contemporary Poems in Defense of Global Human Rights. Lost Horse Press, 147 pp. Edited by Melissa Kwasny & M.L. Smoker, 2009.
2010 Poetry reading at Green Festival, June 6, Wasnington Convention
Center.
2009 Poetry Reading of manuscript Trazas de mapas / Map Traces Seattle Central Public Library. Sponsored by grant from Organization 4Culture, Seattle.
2009 Poetry Reading and presentation of chapbook La luz ambarina de la lluvia: Letras de Temuko / The Rain’s Amber Light: Letters from Temuko. By Eugenia Toledo and Carolyne Wright. Sponsored by Organization Partners of the Americas, Washington State / Chile. 67 pp. April, 15.
2008 Poetry reading: “Beyond One Language / Más allá de una lengua,” 4Culture - sponsored event, September 26, Seattle.
Poetry reading: Seattle City Hall and City Lights, Latino Heritage Month, November.
2007 Poetry reading: “9 / 11 in Chile and the United States,” Richard Hugo House, September 11, Seattle; (A work done with American poet Carolyne Wright. Sponsors: Poets & Writers, Washington State / Chile Partners of the Americas, and Richard Hugo House).
PUBLICATIONS
2010 Ekleksographia: Wave Two, Edited by Judith Skilman.
2010 Borderlands, Texas Poetry Review, N.34, Spring / Summer.
2010 El espacio no es un vacío, incluye todos los tiempos, eBook, ed. Nela Rio (Fredricton: Broken Jaw Press, 2010).
2010 New Letters. A Magazine of Writing & Art, Vol.76 N.4, Published by the University of Missouri, Kansas City.
2009 Prologue to book El callejón de los faroles by William Herst Editorial Bayer S.A., Santiago de Chile.
2009 Los Angeles Review: Vol.6, Fall. Published by Red Hen Press.
2009 Palabra: A Magazine of Chicano & Latino Literary Art. Issue 5.
2009 Poetry International, Issue13: San Diego State University Press.
2009 Rio Grande Review: Fall / Issue 32. University of Texas, El Paso.
2008 Letras femeninas: Literary and cultural magazine of AILCFH,
pp. 227-230, Winter, Arizona State University.
La mujer rota: Homenaje a Simone de Beauvoir. Anthology, Literalia Escritores, Guadalajara, Mexico; compiled and edited by Patricia Medina.
Anthology: Antonio Cavagnaro. Obras Recientes.Editorial Bayer, S.A.Santiago, Chile; compiled and edited by Camila Fadda and Teresa Pérez Vergara.
Anthology: Migraine Expressions. A Creative Journey through Life with migraine. First Edition, Word Metro Press, Carlsbad, California; compiled and edited by Betsy Baxter Blondin.
2007 Tiempo de metales y volcanes. Editorial 400 Elefantes, Managua,
Nicargua.
Chapbook: Hoja de vidrio / Leaf of Glass, published by Artella (Words and Arts) Collages by Deb Silva; design by Tamara Hensley, Koala, Hawaii.
2006 Arquitectura de Ausencias, Editorial Torremozas, Madrid, Spain.
1988 La poesía de Fray Luis de León en la cárcel. Impresos Cíclope, Santiago, Chile, 153 pp.
RECENT MEMBERSHIPS
2009-11 Board of Directors, Partners of the Americas, Seattle.
2008-11 Steering Committee, Latino Cultural Magazine, Seattle.
2011 Member Richard Hugo House, Seattle.
2008 Grant Awards Review Committee, 4Culture, Seattle, WA (April).
2007-11 Member, AILFH (Asociación Internacional de Literatura y
Cultura Femenina Hispánica).
