Paloma Chen

Invitado de Honor

Valencian poet, journalist and researcher. Her family is from Wenzhou. She studied Journalism at the University of Valencia, Construction and Representation of Cultural Identities at the University of Barcelona, and Philosophy at the University of Fudan (Shanghai).

She won the award Premio Nacional de Poesía Viva “L de Lírica” in 2020. She is the author of the poetry book Invocación a las mayorías silenciosas (Letraversal, 2022) and of the multilingual poetry book/app Shanshui Pixel Scenes (2023). Her poems have featured in anthologies such as Última poesía crítica.Jóvenes poetas en tiempos de colapso (Lastura, 2023) and Matria poética: una antología de poetas migrantes (La Imprenta, 2023), and been translated into English for World Literature Today, Modern Poetry in Translation and Action Books.

www.palomachen.es

Minerva Reynosa

She is a poet and cultural manager. She has published the poetry books: Emötoma, La íntima de las cosas, Atardecer en los suburbios, Photograms of My Conceptual Heart, Absolutely Blind, translated by Stalina Villarreal, Mammut & Jinba-Ittai; Larga oda a la salvación de Osvaldo in co-authorship with Sergio Ernesto Ríos, iremos que te pienso entre las filas y el olfato pobre de un paisaje con borrachos o ahorcados, and Lo mejor que damos. Antología personal. She won the Regional Prize of Noreste Carmen Alardín 2006 and the National Prize of Poetry Clemencia Isaura 2020. 
She is currently collaborating with Benjamín Moreno in the textual, visual and technological experimentation project Benerva. She is an online teacher, manager of various poetry awareness projects and belongs to the National System of Art Creators.

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Literature with eggs and machaca