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Andrea Cote Botero

Poet

In this episode of Technically, Literate, host Leah O’Daniel speaks with accomplished poet and UTEP professor Andrea Cote Botero.

Andrea Cote-Botero is the author of the poetry collections: La ruina que nombro (2015), Port in AshesFragile Things and Chinatown 24 hours (Object Book). She has also published books of prose: A Nude Photographer: A Biography of Tina Modotti and Blanca Varela or Writing From Solitude. She has obtained the following recognitions: The National Prize of Poetry from the Universidad Externado of Colombia (2003), the Puentes de Struga International Poetry Prize (2005) and the Cittá de Castrovillari Prize (2010) to the italian edition of Port in Ashes. Her poems have been translated into English, French, German, Catalan, Italian, Portuguese, Macedonian, Arabic, Polish and Greek. Her first poetry book Puerto Calcinado, was published in French by the prestigious quebecois press Ecrist de Forge (http://www.ecritsdesforges.com/oeuvre.php?id=1176.) This book was presented in the 2015 International Poetry Festival of Montreal.