Esdras Parra

Esdras Parra (13 July 1929 in Santa Cruz de Mora, Venezuela – 18 November 2004 in Caracas, Venezuela) was a Venezuelan writer, poet, and trans woman. She was a founding editor of the literary magazine Imagen.

Biography Parra began her career writing short stories and later wrote poetry and drew. Parra transitioned to a woman in London in the early seventies. Although she claimed to have been born in 1937, close friends revealed after her death that she had been born in 1929.

In London, she made friends with many other influential Latin American writers, including Guillermo Cabrera Infante and . According to Oropeza, her friendship with Cabrera did not last long after Cabrera spread widespread rumors that Parra had transitioned as a woman after falling in love with a lesbian who would not accept her affections. This rumor was strongly denied by Parras, but would end up inspiring Mario Vargas Llosa's 2008 play, Al pie del Támesis. Her final book, Aún no, was not published until after her death in 2004.

Almost 20 years after her death, her close friend and fellow poet José Napoleón Oropeza was able to have two collections of her unreleased poetry published with Fundación La Poeteca in 2021.