Amaranta Caballero, Cierra el año, 2023

Amaranta Caballero Prado
(Guanajuato, Guanajuato, México, 1973)

Poet and a draftswoman who studied graphic design at the Universidad d Guanajuato. She also holds an MFA in sociocultural studies from El Colegio de la Frontera/Universidad Autónoma de Baja California. She has published thirteen poetry compilations, most recently Los pájaros y su representación gráfica en la obra científica del doctor Alfredo Dugès (Colección Autores de Guanajuato, Editorial la Rana, 2023), Cólera morbus (Editorial Rana, 2019), Ojo avizor (recuento) (Universidad de Guanajuato, 2019), Newspaper Birds of March 2011 (Editorial Cinosargo, 2019), among others. Caballero Prado’s work has been anthologized in poetry compilations and magazines both in and out of Mexico. The XV Muestra de Artistas Guanajuatenses, from 2024; a Rosebud Books poetry reading in Helsinki, in 2024; the Los Límites del Lenguaje Festival in Moscow, 2012; and the LATINALE Festival de Poesía Latinoamericana, in Berlin, 2006 and 2007 figure among her most notable literary exhibitions and presentations. She is currently putting together an interdisciplinary project, Mil pájaros mil. Tesis autodoctoral, wherein music, graphics and literature jointly reside. She has been a Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte en México member since 2021. 

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