Angélica Hoyos Guzmán

Angélica Hoyos Guzmán (Barranquilla, Colombia, 1982) is a writer, educator, and researcher. She earned her doctorate in Latin American Literature from the Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar-Sede Ecuador, as well as a master’s in Colombian and Latin American Literature from the Universidad del Valle and a master’s in Spanish Linguistics from the Instituto Caro y Cuervo. She has published the books of poetry Hilos sueltos (2014, Ediciones Torremozas), Este permanecer en la tierra (2020, Editorial Abisinia, Editorial Escarabajo, and New York Poetry Press), and Cajas para seres libres (2023). Her academic publications include Una generación emboscada, la emergencia de la poesía testimonial en Colombia (Editorial Unimagdalena, 2020). She has taught creative writing and Spanish in Indigenous and Black communities of Colombia’s Caribbean region, she has given seminars on poetic criticism in the master’s program in Pedagogy of Literature at the Universidad del Tolima, and she has taught Linguistic Anthropology at the Universidad del Magdalena. She forms part of the Colombian chapter of the Movimiento Poético Mundial.