Isabel Gómez Muñoz

Isabel Gómez Muñoz (born 3 October 1959) is a Chilean poet, winner of the 1997 Pablo Neruda Award.

Biography Isabel Gómez Muñoz studied at Escuela Italia No. 18 in Curicó, where she finished her primary education, and then continued with secondary school at Liceo Politécnico A Nº 1, where she obtained a degree in advertising and sales.

Her first literary publications were made in her hometown newspaper La Prensa, and her vocation was also reflected in the founding of the literary workshop Gaviota (1979–1981), which she co-directed. Isabel also participated in the workshops Orlando González Gutiérrez, conducted by the Curican poet Juan Jofré Bustamante; Huelén, by Martín Cerda and Hernán Ortega (1982); and when she was living in Santiago, Espacio, by Osvaldo Ulloa (1990–1991).

Literary career Gómez Muñoz's first verses were published in La Prensa of Curicó between 1979 and 1983. Three years later her first collection of poems, Un crudo paseo por la sonrisa, appeared in Santiago with a foreword by professor and writer Sergio Bueno Venegas. Then, in 1990, Pubisterio came out, prefaced by José-Christian Páez, with a postface by Jorge Teillier and illustrated with engravings by Mario González Sepúlveda. This book established her as a poet; Teiller highlighted her "acute inner search" illuminated by "the lightning bolts" of intuition, while José Arraño Acevedo wrote that it is "a true spiritual renewal" in the way of approaching feminine poetry, "which seeks to free itself from that which links it to old traditions."

As an anthologist she has compiled El lugar de la memoria (Editorial AYUN, 2007) and Voces de la memoria. Centenario en el bicentenario. Antología de poetas y narradores latinoamericanos en los 100 años del Partido Comunista de Chile (Cuarto Propio, 2012).

Works Un crudo paseo por la sonrisa, Ediciones MD, 1986 Pubisterio, Ediciones Literatura Alternativa, 1990 Versos de escalera, MD, 1994 Perfil de muros, with photos by Javier Pérez, Ediciones Logos, 1998 Boca pálida, Logos, 2003 Dasein, Editorial Cuarto Propio, 2006 Enemiga de mí, Cuarto Propio, 2014