Iowa Writers Karen Villeda

Karen Villeda will present at 4:00 p.m. in ARH 102 on Wednesday, October 7, 2015. Karen has won many of Mexico’s most important prizes for young and emerging poets, including a Youth Prize of Mexico City, a Fine Arts Prize for Children's Fiction, and an Elías Nandino National Award for Youth Poetry. Her collections of poetry include Tesauro (2010), Babia (2011), Dodo (2013), and Constantinopla (2014), and she translated John Keats’s “Lamia” into Spanish. Her digital poetry appears in the third volume of the Electronic Literature Collection from MIT.

Villeda has received grants from the Young Creators Program of the National Fund for Culture and Arts and the Open Society Foundation. She currently participates in the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa.