Ana Varela Tafur

Born in the Amazon region of Peru, Ana Varela Tafur is the author of Lo que no veo en visiones (first prize, Premio Copé 2001), Voces desde la orilla (2001), Dama en el escenario (2001), and Estancias de Emilia Tangoa (2022), which won the National Literature Prize for poetry in Peru in 2023. Some of her poems can be found in Diálogo, Lucero, Huizache, Literary Amazonia, and Amazonian Literary Review, among others. She has been widely anthologized and received her PhD in Spanish Literature, focused on the Amazon, in 2018. She lives in Richmond, California.