Damaris Calderón Campos

Damaris Calderón Campos (Havana, 1967) is a poet, painter, and essayist. She has published more than twenty books of poetry, including Duro de roer (Ediciones Dos Fridas, Santiago de Chile, 1999), Sílabas: Ecce Homo (Editorial Universitaria, 2000, Chile), Parloteo de sombra (Lom Ediciones, Chile, 2009), Las Pulsaciones de la derrota (Lom Ediciones, 2013), El tiempo del manzano (Verbodesnudo, Chile, 2018), Daño Colateral (Casa Vacía, Richmond, Virginia, USA, 2021) and the book of essays Cartografía de ruta, otros asedios a la poesía (Ediciones Una Temporada en Isla Negra, Chile, 2023). Her poems appear in various anthologies of contemporary Cuban and Hispano-American poetry. Among other prizes, she received a Guggenheim Fellowship in poetry in 2011. In 2014, she was awarded the Premio Altazor a las Artes in poetry in Chile, as well as the Prize for Best Published Work in Chile for Las pulsaciones de la derrota. In 2019, she received the Premio Neruda a la Trayectoria from the Pablo Neruda Foundation in Chile.