Ana Varela Tafur is the author of the poetry collections Lo que no veo en visiones (2001; first prize, Premio Copé), Voces desde la orilla (2001), Dama en el escenario (2001), and Estancias de Emilia Tangoa (2022), which won Peru’s National Literature Prize for poetry in 2023. Her work can be found in Diálogo, Lucero, Huizache, AGNI, Literary Amazonia, and elsewhere. Born in the Amazon region of Peru, she lives in Richmond, California. (updated 4/2024)