Damaris Calderón Campos (born 1967) is a Cuban poet based in Chile. She has won several awards for her poetry work, including the 1998 and a 2011

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, and she is a professor at

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Biography

Damaris Calderón Campos was born in 1967 in Havana, and she graduated from the

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. She started writing several poetry collections - ''Con el terror del quilibrista'' (1988), ''Duras aguas del trópico'' (1992), ''Duro de roer'' (1992), and ''Guijarros'' (1994), some on which were, according to , part of a trend "questioning of the idea of a revolutionary nation" like Cuba amidst the

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. She then moved to Chile in 1995, and she was educated at the Metropolitan University of Educational Sciences, where she got her master's degree in classical languages and culture. She then resumed her career in poetry collections, publishing ''Babosas: dejando mi propio rastro'' in 1998 and ''Se adivina un país'' in 1999. In 1999, she won the for her poetry collection ''Sílabas. Ecce Homo''. Five of her poems were part of Mark Weiss' 2009 book ''The Whole Island: Six Decades of Cuban Poetry''. In 2011, she was awarded a

in Poetry. In 2014, she won the Award for Best Published Literary Work in Poetry for her collection ''Las pulsaciones de la ataque''. She began teaching at the

, where she later became professor. Together with , she founded and became director of publishing house Las Dos Fridas. Additionally, she once had an anthology of modern Chilean poetry under her editorship, ''Cercados por las aguas''.

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