Carlota Caulfield

Carlota Caulfield, a poet, translator, scholar and literary critic, is the author of eleven books of poems including the prize-winning Oscuridad Divina and Movimientos metálicos para juguetes abandonados, as well as 34th Street and Other Poems, A Mapmaker's Diary, A las puertas del papel con amoroso fuego/At the Paper Gates with Burning Desire, The Book of Giulio Camillo (a model for a theater of memory)/El libro de Giulio Camillo (maqueta para un teatro de la memoria)/Il Libro di Giulio Camillo (modello per un teatro della memoria), Quincunce/Quincunx, Cuaderno Neumeister/The Neumeister Notebook, Los juguetes de Bertrand/Bertrand’s Toys and Aligrafías/Wingraphies.

Additional publications include the editions From the Forbidden Garden: Letters from Alejandra Pizarnik to Antonio Beneyto, A Companion to US Latino Literature and Barcelona: Visual Cultures, Space and Power; the anthologies Voces viajeras. Poetas cubanas de hoy, The Other Poetry of Barcelona and No soy tu musa. Antología de poetas irlandesas contemporáneas; books in collaborations with visual poets (Ariel GAngi, Martin GuBbins, J.M. Calleja, Carlota CaulfielD ARIO... & GHROMYT Calleja & Caulfield).

Among her awards are the International Prize “Ultimo Novecento” Poets of the World (Italy, 1988), Primer Premio Hispanoamericano de Poesía “Dulce María Loynaz” (Islas Canarias-Cuba, 2002), Honorable Mention in the “Premio Plural” (México, 1992), an Honorable Mention in the International Poetry Award “Federico García Lorca” (USA-Spain, 1994), The Latin American Writers Institute of New York “Latino Literature” Honorable Mention Poetry Prize (1997) and the Cintas Fellowship for Poetry (1987-1988).

Caulfield has given poetry readings and lectures at universities, colleges, art galleries and cultural centers nationwide and in Europe and Latin America. She has been a Visiting Professor at the University College London, the University of Gröningen, Holland, and a Research Fellow at the Institute of German and Romance Studies, University of London, and the University of Barcelona. She is Professor Emerita of the Department of Literatures and Languages at Mills College at Northeastern University, Oakland, California.