Fervor de tierra: Rivers, deserts and borders in Andrea Cote's poetry

The author and professor at the University of Texas at El Paso Andrea Cote presents, as part of the Cervantes Now conference program, her latest book: Fervor de Tierra, an anthology of all her poetic work. Andrea Cote is the author of the books of poems: Puerto Calcinado (2003), Cosas Frágiles (2008), La Ruina que Nombro (2015), En las praderas del fin del mundo (2019) and the chapbook Chinatown a toda hora. His poetry collection Fervor de tierra was published by Tusquets in 2024. She has also published the prose books Una fotógrafa al desnudo: biografía de Tina Modotti (2005) and Blanca Varela o la escritura de la soledad (2004). She compiled the Anthology of Colombian Women Poets Pájaros de Sombra (2019).

She holds a PhD in Hispanic American literature from the University of Pennsylvania. She has received the following awards: National Poetry Prize from the Externado University of Colombia in 2003, International Poetry Prize Puentes de Struga (2005), Premio Cittá de Castrovillari Prize (2010) to Porto in Cenere, Italian version of Puerto Calcinado and International Latino Book Award, 2020 to the best poetry anthology.

In 2015 the French version of Puerto Calcinado appeared; other texts of his have been translated into English, French, German, Catalan, Italian, Portuguese, Macedonian, Arabic, Polish, Greek, Russian and Chinese. She has translated into Spanish the poets Jericho Brown and Tracy K. Smith. She teaches poetry for the bilingual MFA in creative writing at the University of Texas at El Paso.