Lourdes Vázquez

Lourdes Vázquez (born 1949) is a Puerto Rican poet, fiction and essayist writer and a resident of the United States. Her poetry, short stories and essays have been published in numerous magazines and anthologies. Her many collections, which have been translated into English and Italian by writers such as Bethany Korps-Edwards, Rosa Alcalá, Enriqueta Carrington and Brigidina Gentile have received excellent reviews. She is Librarian Emeritus of Rutgers University.

Collaborations Vázquez has collaborated with a group of artists. Some of these collaborations include the artist's book, Salmos del cuerpo ardiente by Consuelo Gotay (2007) and the videos Meche en doble luna llena (2006) by Adál Maldonado and Cat = Cat (2006) by Andrea Hasselager. She has also collaborated twice with Yarisa Colón Torres: Cibeles que sueña=Cybele, As She Dreams (35 copies, measuring 10" length x 6" width, translated by Enriqueta Carrington) and The Tango Files (35 copies, January 6, 2014, front cover by Yarisa Colón).

Awards In 1988 Vázquez's book Las Hembras (1987) was selected by El Nuevo Día newspaper as one of the Puerto Rican ten best books of the year, and Aterrada de cuernos y cuervos, a biography of the poet Marina Arzola, received the same distinction in 1990. In 2001, Vázquez was awarded the "50 Most Distinguished Latinas in the Tri-State Area Award" by El Diario-La Prensa newspaper (NY). She was the winner of the Juan Rulfo Short Story Award (France) in 2002: category Literate World. In 2004, her Bestiary: Selected Poems 1986-1997 received an Honorable Mention in the Foreword Reviews Book of the Year Awards. Bestiary was selected also as one of the "May–June 2004 Picks" by the Small Press Review. Her novel Sin ti no soy yo is part of The New Essential Guide to Spanish Reading (2012), compiled by the organization, America Reads Spanish and its English translation Not Myself Without You was selected as part of LatinoStories.com's "2013 Top Ten New Latino Authors to Watch". Vázquez was awarded the Honorable Mention for the National Poetry Series 2014 Paz Prize for Poetry as well as an Honorable Mention for the Premio Luis Lloréns Torres, Casa de los Poetas, 2014 (PR).

Archives In 2008 the Library and Archives of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies / CUNY invited her to donate her documents. See: Center for Puerto Rican Studies, Library and Archives, Collection Descriptions. (https://centropr.hunter.cuny.edu/collections/collection-descriptions-t-z )

Publications La rosa mecánica. Rio Piedras, P.R.: Ediciones Huracán, 1991. Historias de Pulgarcito. Río Piedras, P.R.: Editorial Cultural, 1999. Hablar sobre Julia: Julia de Burgos: bibliografía 1934- 2002. Austin, TX: SALALM Secretariat, 2002. Desnudo con Huesos=Nude with Bones. La Candelaria, 2003. Park Slope. Duration Press 2003. May the transvestites of my island... Translation by Rosa Alcalá. New York: Belladona Press, 2004. Obituario. Babab, 2004. Bestiary: Selected Poems 1986-1997. Translation by Rosa Alcalá. Tempe: Bilingual Review Press, 2004. La estatuilla. San Juan, PR: Cultural, 2004. Salmos del cuerpo ardiente. Chihuahua Arde, 2004. Salmos del cuerpo ardiente: An Artist Book by Consuelo Gotay. 2007. Samandar: libro de viajes=Book of Travel. Translation by Enriqueta Carrington. Buenos Aires: Tsé Tsé, 2007. Tres cuentos y un infortunio. Argentina: Fundación A. Ross, 2009. Compiladora antología: Narradoras latinoamericanas en Estados Unidos. Argentina: Fundación A. Ross, 2009. vol. I ; Vol II Una muñeca de cerámica…=A porcelain doll.... Wheelhouse Press, 2009. La mujer, el pan y el pordiosero. México: Eón, 2010. Sin ti no soy yo. (Second Revised Edition.) El Gallo Rojo, 2012. Not Myself Without You. Translation by Bethany Korps-Edwards. Tempe, AZ: Bilingual Review Press, 2012. Appunti dalla Terra Frammentata = Registros del Broken-Up Land. Translation by Manuela Derosas. Italy: EDIBOM Edizione Letterarie, Serie Collana Isla, 2012. Le Extrait I. Ca: El Gallo Rojo, 2014. Translation by Philippe Burgos. Adagio con fugas y ciertos afectos: mis mejores cuentos. Madrid: Editorial Verbum, 2013. Un enigma esas muñecas. Madrid: Torremozas, 2015. The Tango Files. Italia: Edizione Arcoiris, 2016. El atardecer de los planetas azules. San Juan: Los libros de la Iguana, 2018. Orígenes de los eterno y así las cosas. Madrid: Verbum, 2020.