Juan Carlos Galeano

Born in the Amazon region of Colombia, Juan Carlos Galeano is a poet and a teacher. His poems, inspired by Amazonian cosmologies and the modern world, have been published in journals such the Atlantic Monthly, Ploughshares (USA) Insula Europea, Poesia (Italy), and Casa de Poesía Silva (Colombia) and in international anthologies. He is the author of several books of poetry and the book Folktales of the Amazon. Galeano is also a translator of North American poetry and director of the documentaries The Trees Have a Mother (2009) and El Río (2018) focusing on Amazonian spirituality and featuring rainforest and riverine mythical beings. He teaches Latin American poetry and courses on Cultures of the Amazon Basin at Florida State University.