Poetry Contest Premio Mujer Titana 2022

Gabriela Polit Dueñas is a professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Texas at Austin. Her latest book is Unwanted Witnesses. Journalists and Conflict in Contemporary Latin America (Pittsburgh UP, 2019). She is the author of Narrating Narcos. Culiacán and Medellín (Pittsburgh UP, 2013), translated as Narco Stories. Medellín and Culiacán (University of Antioquia, 2021). Writers and caudillos in the Latin American Literature of the 20th century (Beatriz Viterbo Editora, 2008). She has edited two books and her articles have been published in several specialized magazines in the United States, Europe and Latin America. She has published two storybooks Historias de la radio (El Conejo 1998) and Amsterdam Avenue (Literal Editores, 2017). Agujas / Needles (Literal Editores, 2022) is her first collection of poems. Her novel Los Libros de otros comes out with Los Chatos Inhumanos in 2022. She is a non-fiction and opinion columnist in various Latin American media.

Lilia Sixtos is a musical theater professional, for three decades she has trained hundreds of artists to develop a career in theater and television. She is the author of the bestselling books, The Art of Raising an Artist and The Art of Speaking in front of the Camera.

Graduated from UNAM as a theater director and as a theater professional, she won the highest award in Musical Theater Direction in Mexico for co-directing the staging of the play Cats in 2014. After graduating from the theater department of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, she began a directing career that spanned several genres, including the musicals Saturday Night Fever, Cinderella, Spring Awakening, and the internationally renowned play Mi Cristo Roto.

As an actress, she has acted in more than twelve professional productions, including Sweet Charity, Starlight Express, Godspell and Cats.

She has taught acting classes at many schools, including Mexico’s hit Reality Show competition, La Academia, which was watched by over sixty million viewers.

She is also an internationally renowned speaker on personal development. She is a color and image analyst and NLP trainer.

Viviana Gonzales (La Paz, Bolivia, 1985). Bolivian-Mexican poet and playwright. She has a degree in Journalism from the Universidad Carlos III of Madrid; She has a Master’s degree in Art from Universidad Complutense de Madrid and a Specialist in International Security from the UNED and Instituto Gutiérrez Mellado. National Prize for Literature in Poetry (Santa Cruz, Bolivia. 2019) for her collection of poems Hay un árbol de piedra en mi memoria.

She is a youth reading promoter; has taught various literature workshops (FILIJ, Centro Cultural de la Secretaría de Hacienda y Crédito Público, Secretaría de Cultura, CASUL, Ítaca, Club de Lectura de La Paz, Bolivia, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo del Sur, Lanús, Argentina and with independent projects).

She has been invited to various poetry and literature festivals. She works as a freelance editor and proofreader. She has attended literary workshops at UNAM, the Xavier Villaurrutia Center, Casa Lamm; she has a diploma in Literary Creation at the Literaria Centro de Escritores; and another in Literature in Indigenous Languages ​​of Mexico with INBAL.

She has published in different national and international magazines, as well as in anthologies. Ella Yawarmanta’s monologue was chosen, in 2019, for a presentation alongside young playwrights at SOGEM. In 2020 she was published, together with the Argentine publishing house Buenos Aires Poetry, her second collection of poems entitled Canto de un pájaro de fuego. In 2022 she was honorable mention for a Young Writers Residency in Seattle, USA.