Beverly Pérez Rego

Beverly Pérez Rego is a Venezuelan poet and translator. She is the author of five volumes of poetry, Artes del vidrio (1992), Libro de cetrería (1994), Providencia (1998), Grimorio (2002), and Escurana (2004); collected in 2006 as Poesía reunida. Her poems have appeared in numerous anthologies, and her publications also include translations of Louise Glück (2009), Anne Waldman (1997), Clara Sabater (2016) and Mark Strand (2011). An anthology of Venezuelan poetry translated into English is forthcoming, as well as a collection of short stories and alt-fiction. Pérez Rego received the Rafael Bolívar Coronado Biennial Literary Prize in Poetry and the Elías David Curiel Poetry Award, was a Poetry Fellow at Pittsburgh’s City of Asylum and the International Writing Program of the University of Iowa, where she later obtained an MFA in Spanish and an MFA in Translation.  She currently lives in Caracas.