Announcing the 2024 Winner of the Paz Prize for Poetry Posted in: News

The National Poetry Series, in collaboration with Miami Dade College’s (MDC) acclaimed Miami Book
Fair, is pleased to announce the 2024 Paz Prize for Poetry winner: Venezuelan poet Maria Auxiliadora
Alvarez for her manuscript Un sol caído avanza. Her book was chosen by German Guerra and
will be published by Akashic Press in 2025.
María Auxiliadora Álvarez (Caracas, Venezuela, 1956) is a professor emerita at Miami University, Ohio,
since 2023. Growing up in different countries due to her father’s diplomatic career, she settled in the
United States in 1996, where she received a masters and doctorate degrees in Spanish Literature from
the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. Her research areas include Mystical/Contemporary
Poetry; Pre-Columbian/Colonial Cultures; and Women, Cultural and Interdisciplinary Studies. She has
published several critical articles in literary journals, two essay books, and fourteen poetry books.

The 2024 Paz Poetry Prize finalists are:
Ximena Gomez No sé si escuchas el río
Oscar Chaidez Mutaciones
María Palitachi Multitudes
Elidio La Torre Lagares Derecho al olvido
Catalina Rodriguez Huracán-Nena
Liz Santiago Nacer del Agua
Manuel Martinez Toda una vida
Oriette D. Angelo Espacios para la luz
Cristian Gomez Olivares Metáforas varadas sobre la arena
Luis Javier Santiago Náter Sermón de patriarcas
Jorge Garcia Cartografía del aire
Lilianne Lugo Herrera Ningún anunciado porvenir me salvó del fuego
Erwin Dorado SIN FONÍA DEL ABRAZO
Andrea Cote Botero Querida Beth
Juan De Urda Las manos no son simétricas
Orazio Adamo Prontuario
Sergio Inestrosa Vislumbres de Oriente
Keiselim Montás Cartografía distante de una isla
Carlos Aguasaco memorial de voces ancestrales
Oscar Franco CUADERNOS DE POSTGUERRA
Luis Correa-Diaz Tableaux Vivant
Audry Gutierrez Destino iracundo
Laura Andrea No hay parking para visitantes
Grethel Delgado Alvarez Public Housing