Andrea Cote

Andrea Cote (Colombia, 1981) is one of the most distinguished voices in Latin American poetry and prose. She studied Literature at the University of the Andes and received her PhD in Latin American Literature from the University of Pennsylvania. She has published four collections of poetry and two works of prose. Her collection *Dear Beth* won her the 24th Casa de América Prize for American Poetry. Her poems have been translated into English, German, Catalan, Italian, Portuguese, Macedonian, Arabic, Polish, Greek, Russian and Chinese. She lives in the US and teaches creative writing at the University of Texas at El Paso.