About
The AUTHOR
She was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is married to a physician and has 2 sons. Attended East Tennessee State University and Maryland Institute College of Art. Has a degree in Graphic Arts from NOVA.
She is a visual artist and a poet.
She has published Along the Way Impressions Captured in Literary and Pictorial Forms (Xlibris). Her poems have appeared in Voces en la Madrugada, an anthology of Colectivo Literario Alta Hora de la Noche, in Anthology of Poems, a publication of Alianza Latina, USA, in Voices, a publication of Georgetown University Medical Center, as well as in Pen Women magazine.
She obtained 1st place in a poetry competition sponsored by The Washington Beacon newspaper and the Maryland Federation of Arts (2018).
While living in Virginia, she was a member of the Arlington Writers Group. She was invited by NLAPW to present a program of her poetry at the Belle Haven Country Club in Mount Vernon, VA, and often recited her poems at the Consulate of San Salvador in Maryland.
In California, she is a member of the National League of American Pen Women, La Jolla branch, and participates in the Temecula Poetry Group.
She can be reached at [email protected]
Author's Thoughts
My father had in his library a thick poetry book by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, with rice paper pages. Even handling and smelling this leatherbound book gave me as a child a sensory pleasure. Some of those poems remain engraved in my mind.
Author's Thoughts
I started writing poems as an adolescent, but it was not till adulthood that I was seduced by this literary form. It was after I had accumulated numerous poems that I decided to publish my first collection.
Author's Thoughts
The body hungers for food, the soul hungers for self-expression. It is not to be ignored; it needs to be listened to.
Author's Thoughts
I do not sit down to write a poem with a title in mind. The poem finds me, it grows in me. So, I must let it out, put in on paper. Then, if necessary, I give it a title.
Author's Thoughts
Often, I wake up and find the core of a poem waiting for me in the desk of my mind. I just need to work at polishing it. I must have ben taking form in my sleep, where the subconscious is so free to find clues and make connections.
Author's Thoughts
My poems are not wedded to advancing a particular cause. And believe me, I admire those types of writings driven by a cause. My grandmother in the 1940s wrote a book entitled: Evils, their roots, and remedies, that sought to advance the feminist cause. I am proud of my grandmother! She wrote under the pen name Ines di Magin.
Author's Thoughts
My poems also do not tend to have a local flavor, like many poignant poems that reflect the political turmoil and wars in a particular country. I admire those poems.
Author's Thoughts
I cast instead sort of a wide net, my poems have a macro focus, are born of a need to explore the mysteries of life, are concerned with the human experience in general, the Earth’s beautiful nature and the Universe, anybody can participate in my search, for it affects and includes everybody.
Author's Thoughts
Not unlike a biologist that observes and takes notes in his or her field notebook, I jot down my observations about people, myself, and others, in different situations in life, from the point of view where I am. In the case of this book observed from the last stretch of my life.
Author's Thoughts
Sometimes, when I deposit a poem in a page, I wish to house it there, like the poem is a living entity. The inhabited page is visited by the reader who hopefully can sense the feeling I placed in it. I want to give each page a pulse.
