Mariela Griffor, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Chilean poet, writer, and editor
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Place of Birth: Concepción, Biobío Region, Chile
About Mariela Griffor
- Mariela Griffor (born September 29, 1961 in Concepcion, Chile), is a poet, editor, publisher of Marick Press and diplomat.
- She is author of four poetry collections, Exiliana, House, The Psychiatrist and most recently, Declassified (Eyewear Publishing, 2016), and has had her poems and translations published in many literary journals and magazines including Poetry International, Washington Square Review , Texas Poetry Review, and Éditions d'art Le Sabord, in anthologies including Poetry in Michigan / Michigan in Poetry, from New Issues Press.
- A variety of Griffor's poems has been translated into Italian, French, Chinese, Swedish, and Spanish.
- She has been nominated to the Griffin Poetry Prize, to the Whiting Awards and the PEN/Beyond Margins Award.
- She was finalist and shortlisted for the 2017 National Translation Award for Canto General by Pablo Neruda.
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