Daisy Zamora-Evans

• P.G.D.B.A., Instituto Centroamericano de Administración de Empresas (INCAE), Managua
• B.A., Psychology, UCA (Universidad Centro Americana) Managua
• B.A., Psychopedagogy, UCA, Managua
• A.G.D., National School of Fine Arts, León
• B.A., Teacher for Secondary Education, UCA, Managua

Cultural studies, media studies, visual culture, literature, art and political studies

• LTNS 230: Introduction to Latina/Latino Literature
• LTNS 679: Central American Literature: Roots to the Present
• LTNS 560: Contemporary Latina/o Literature

• The Marie Curie Order for the Arts 2014, Nicaragua.
• Writer of the Year, National Association of Artists in Nicaragua, 2006.
• Member of the jury for the Neustadt International Prize for Literature 2005, sponsored by the University of Oklahoma and World Literature Today.
• California Arts Council Fellowship for poetry, 2002.
• Nicaraguan Writers Center Literary Acknowledgement for valuable contributions to Nicaraguan literature, 2002.
• The National Poetry Prize of Nicaragua, Mariano Fiallos Gil, 1977.

Poetry Books:

•  Cerrada Luz.  Editorial Summa, Lima, Perú. 2021.
• Tránsito de espumas.  Colección de literatura iberoamericana Primavera Poética, Colección Lima Lee, Municipalidad de Lima, Perú. 2020.
• La violenta espuma.  Visor Libros, Madrid, Spain. 2017.
• Cómo te ve tu hombre.  Editorial 400 Elefantes, Managua, Nicaragua. 2017.
• Tierra de Nadie, Tierra de Todos.  Casa de Poesía, San José, Costa Rica. 2007.
• Fiel al Corazón/Poemas de Amor.  Editorial Anamá, Managua, Nicaragua. 2005.
• The Violent Foam, New and Selected Poems.  Curbstone Press, Willimantic, CT, April 2002.
• Life for Each.  KATABASIS Press, London, England. 1994.
• A Cada Quién la Vida.  Editorial Vanguardia, Managua, Nicaragua. May 1994.
• Clean Slate.  Curbstone Press, Willimantic, CT. June 1993.
• Riverbed of Memory.  City Lights Books, San Francisco, CA. January 1993.
• En limpio se escribe la vida.  Editorial Nueva Nicaragua, Managua, Nicaragua. July 1988.
• La violenta espuma.  Ediciones Culturales Ministerio de Cultura de Nicaragua, Managua. 1981.

Editor:

• Lo que nadie más va a escribir.  A pioneer anthology of Spanish Poetry Workshops, Latin American and Latino Studies Department, UCSC, Santa Cruz, CA. 2005.
• La Mujer Nicaragüense en la Poesía.  The first anthology of Nicaraguan women poets, Editorial Nueva Nicaragua/Unicef, Managua. February 1992.
• Hacia una política cultural de la Revolución Popular Sandinista.  Editorial Ocarina, Ministerio de Cultura de Nicaragua, Managua. September 1982.

Chapbooks:

• Tertulia literaria, Daisy Zamora, material de lectura, Serie Poesía Moderna 5.  Ediciones Festival Internacional de Poesía de Granada, Nicaragua. October 2017.
• El autor y su obra: “Poesía y vida”, Daisy Zamora, material de lectura, Serie Poesía Moderna 31.  Ediciones Festival Internacional de Poesía de Granada. July 2014.
• A Diego Rivera on Valencia Street.  Longhouse Publishers & Booksellers, Green River, Vermont. 2007.
• La mujer nicaragüense en la poesía.  Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos https://es.scribd.com/document/374765158/la-mujer-nicaraguense-en-la-poesia-pdf
• La mujer nicaragüense en la poesía (translated into English). Revista Iberoamericana, Vol LVII, No. 157, October-December 1991.  https://doi.org/10.5195/reviberoamer.1991.4970

Translations and Co-translations:

• Translator of a collection of poetry by U.S. poet George Evans into Spanish, Earth’s Mirror/Espejo de la Tierra, Colección Casa de Poesía. Costa Rica 2007.
• Co translator with George Evans of Amor sin fin, by Claribel Alegría, partially published in World Literature Today.  May 2018. https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/2018/may/memoriam-claribel-alegria…...

Poetry:

Translated into more than thirty languages, her poetry is included in numerous anthologies and in The Oxford Book of Latin American Poetry.

Su poesía aparece en numerosas antologías en más de treinta idiomas y en The Oxford Book of Latin American Poetry, Oxford Press, 2009. 

Amazon.com: The Oxford Book of Latin American Poetry: 9780195124545: Vicuña, Cecilia, Grosman, Ernesto Livon: Books

Essays and Articles:

Her essays, articles and translations have been published in international magazines and literary newspapers.

• A featured poet in Bill Moyer’s PBS series The Language of Life
• Featured in director Jenny Murray’s award-winning 2020 documentary ¡Las Sandinistas! 
• Interdisciplinary collaborations of poetry and visual arts and poetry and music: “(en)vulnerabilidad/(in)vulnerability.”  Exhibition of visual arts and poetry with the Argentinian artist Claudia Bernardi: Installations and frescoes on paper with fragments of the poem “Amigas/hermanas” (“Friends/Sisters”) in Spanish and English.  LUX Art Gallery. March 8-April 19, 2002.  San Francisco, California.
• “Espejismo/Mirage.”  Collaboration with the Nicaraguan artist María José Zamora: seventy pieces made of Kraft carboard and aluminum, dry leaves, vellum and string, including the poem “Espejismo” (“Mirage”).  The Book of Lies, Vol. II, June 1997.  Conceptual art curated by Eugenia Butler as part of the project Artists’ (Floating, Invisible) Museum of Actual Art.  Los Angeles, CA:  SCI-Arc Public Access Press/Southern California Institute of Architecture.  Its’  the web page: Artists’(Floating, Invisible) Museum of Actual Art:  The Getty Center for Education, Getty Museum, Los Angeles.
• “Canto de Esperanza/Song of Hope.”  Composition for four-hand piano and chorus.  Music by David Goodman and lyrics by Daisy Zamora.  Recorded in cassette, 1988 and in CD “Diversity” Claremont, California: Bridges Hall of Music, Pomona College.  August 24 and 25, 1991.
• Recital-Concert En Flor Mayor.  Joint recital of poetry and Latin American songs in collaboration with Nicaraguan singer Norma Helena Gadea.  Presented in:  Cultural Center Coro de Ángeles Managua, Nicaragua, August 22, 1992.  Universidad Nacional, Tegucigalpa, Honduras, 1992.  San Pedro Sula, Honduras, 1992. Teatro Nacional Rubén Darío, Managua, Nicaragua, May 22, 1993.  Teatro Nacional Rubén Darío, Managua, Nicaragua, August 14, 1993.  Bar Café Concert La Buena Nota, Managua, Nicaragua, March 15, 1994.  Art Gallery Códice, Managua, Nicaragua, August 23, 2000].  Ruta Maya, Managua, Nicaragua, January 18, 2005; February, 2006; March 8, 2007.