honors & awards

Winner of “The Paz Prize for Poetry, 2024.” Sponsored by The National Poetry Series, Miami Dade College, and Miami Fair Books, 2024.
Selection of my poetry (Book Cuerpo/ Body) staged by El Salto Theater Company, Madrid, 2020.
Featured Poet. Salón de la Poesía. Feria Internacional del Libro de Guadalajara. December 5, 2017.
Featured Writer in Three Decades of Spanish Writing in 16 Names. By Julio Ortega. Madrid: El País, Babelia, November 30, 2016.
Featured Poet in the V Festival Internacional La Lira. Cuenca, Ecuador, July 2015.
Featured Poet in the “XII International Congress of Poetry.” Caracas, Venezuela. July 24, 2015.
Featured Poet in the Art Exhibition Manifiesto País. Curator Lisbeth Salas. Universidad Metropolitana, Sala Mendoza, Caracas. May 2014.
Featured Poet in the Venezuelan Writers Issue. Words Without Borders (WWB). Eds. Susan Harris and Rohan Kamicheril. Trans. Catherine Hammond. Sponsored by the New York State Council on the Arts/ Lannan Foundation/ National Endowment for the Arts, March 2014.
Featured Poet in the The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics: Fourth Edition. Stephen Cushman, Clare Cavanagh, Jahan Ramazani, Paul Rouzer, eds. Princeton University Press. August 2012. Page 1506.
Internacional Award María Pia Gratton (Estados Unidos, 1999)
Premio Fundarte de Poesía (Caracas, 1990)
Premio de Poesía del Consejo Municipal de Cali (Colombia, 1974)