Elizabeth Torres

Elizabeth Torres (Madam Neverstop) 1987. Colombian/American poet, translator and multimedia artist.

Her work intertwines poetry, visions and soundscapes with language and performance across various art forms and media. She has a background in Media & Film and Fine Arts from Kean University, NJ, and an MFA in Performing Arts from Den Danske Scenekunstskole (Writing Specialization, 2023).

Creating under the name of Madam Neverstop, her interests involve soundscapes, visual arts through textile/fabrics/papers/paintings, and presented as installations which often also involve film, animation, and performance… all of this centered around conversations on agency, identity and territory.

Winner of the Ambroggio Prize 2022 by the Academy of American Poets, Elizabeth is the author of over 20 books of poetry published in Spanish, English, Danish and German, and her poetry has also been included in anthologies and literary journals around the planet. Elizabeth is a frequent speaker at universities, poetry and culture festivals and other events across Europe, Latin America and the US, having traveled to over 30 countries with her work. Her most recent publications are the English/German poetry books The Ways of the Firefly and Would you like to come home? translated by Klaudia Ruschowsky and published by Moloko plus, Fábulas del Desastre released in 2021 in Mexico by MiCielo ediciones, and a compilation of poetry in Danish/Spanish titled La Herida Invisible / Det usynlige sår translated by Malene Boeck Thorborg and published in Denmark by Det Poetiske Bureaus Forlag in 2019. The Ambroggio prize winner book, La Lotería: Sorteo Nocturno / The Lottery: Nocturnal Sweepstakes was published by the University of Arizona Press in the Spring of 2023.

She is the founding director of Red Door Magazine, the host of the Red Transmissions Podcast, and the initiator of the international audio collection Poetic Phonotheque, as well as a cultural organizer in the Nordic regions.

www.madamneverstop.com