EUGENIA TOLEDO

Eugenia Toledo is a poet, editor, translator, literary critic, and teacher. She was born in Temuco, Chile and was educated there and in the United States. She holds a master’s degree in Latin American Literature and a doctorate in Spanish Renaissance Literature from the University of Washington in Seattle.

 

She has contributed to numerous literary magazines, and her work has examined a variety of themes, including the work the sixteenth century Spanish poet-theologian Fray Luis de León. Her first two poetry collections: Arquitectura de Ausencias (Architecture of Absences) and Tiempo de metales y volcanes (Time of Metals and Volcanoes), were published in 2006 and 2007, respectively. A third, bilingual volume, entitled Trazas de mapa (Map Traces), will be published in 2010.

 

Ms. Toledo has also published chapbooks, among them Leaf of Glass, which won a contest sponsored by Artella Magazine in 2005. Eugenia teaches, writes literary articles and creates “book objects” that weave images and poetic language into a rich tapestry of meaning.

 

She has taught creative writing classes at the Richard Hugo House in Seattle and has participated in many poetry readings in the USA and other countries. She is a member of the International Association of Hispanic Feminine Literature and Washington State/Chile Partners of the Americas. She has lived in Seattle, Washington, since 1975.