Día de Muertos: Poetry & Literary Reading 2026 by Xánath Caraza
Xanath Caraza
Join us for our literary celebration of Día de Muertos: Day of the Dead. Listen to our featured readers, authors Xánath Caraza and Elvira Barbosa, share their literary creations. It will be a pleasure to have you join us. Please register in advance.
Xanath Caraza
Elvira Barbosa
Elvira Barbosa
Elvira Barbosa is a professor at
the Federal University of Technology – Paraná (UTFPR), Apucarana Campus,
Brazil, and a researcher specializing in linguistics and literary studies. As a
novelist, she is also deeply interested in Brazil’s cultural memory and the
ways in which history continues to shape contemporary society.
Drawing on her family roots in the
Brazilian states of Minas Gerais and Bahia, Barbosa brings both emotional
sensitivity and historical precision to her fiction. Her work explores the
complex dynamics of power, memory, and identity with particular attention to
the social structures that have shaped—and continue to shape—Brazil.
Nadja’s Secrets, her debut novel,
weaves together literary fiction, social critique, and psychological depth.
Through the voices of women and other figures marginalized by official history,
the novel illuminates the contradictions, silences, and enduring emotional legacies
that pass from one generation to the next.
She lives in Paraná, Brazil, where she teaches, conducts research, and continues to write literary fiction.
Xanath Caraza
Xánath Caraza
Xanath Caraza
Xánath
Caraza is a traveler, educator, poet, short story writer, and translator. She writes for La Bloga and Revista Literaria Monolito. In 2023 Red
Teardrop received Gold Medal for
Best Fiction Book Translation—Spanish to English for the International Latino
Book Awards. In 2024 Tejerás el destino / You Will Weave Destiny
received Honorable Mention for Best Bilingual Poetry Book—one author for the
Juan Felipe Herrera Award, Internation Latino Book Wards. In 2023 La
mariposa de Jackeline / Jackeline’s Butterfly received Bronze Medal for the
Juan Felipe Herrera Best Poetry Award—One Author Bilingual for the
International Latino Book Awards. In 2022 Perchada estás / Perching won
honorable mention for the Juan Felipe Herrera Best Poetry Book Award-One
Author-Bilingual. In 2021 It Pierces the Skin received Bronze
Medal for the Juan Felipe Herrera Best Book of Poetry. In 2020 Balamkú received
second place for the Juan Felipe Herrera Best Book of Poetry Award. In 2019 for
the International Latino Book Awards she received Second Place for Hudson for
“Best Book of Poetry in Spanish” and Second Place for Metztli for Best
Short Story Collection. In 2018 for the International Latino Book Awards she
received First Place for Lágrima roja for “Best Book of Poetry in
Spanish by One Author” and First Place for Sin
preámbulos / Without Preamble for “Best Book of Bilingual Poetry”. Her book of poetry Syllables of Wind / Sílabas
de viento received the 2015 International Book Award for Poetry. She was
Writer-in-Residence at Westchester Community College, NY, 2016-2019. In 2023 Caraza received a grant from the
University of Missouri-Kansas City for writing her manuscript Sangre de
vainilla / Vanilla’s Blood. Her book
of poetry, Corazón de agua /Heart of Water, was published in the Spring
of 2024. Caraza was the recipient of the 2014 Beca Nebrija para Creadores,
Universidad de Alcalá de Henares in Spain.
She was named number one of the 2013 Top Ten Latino Authors by
LatinoStories.com. Her books of
verse Where the Light is Violet, Black
Ink, Ocelocíhuatl, Conjuro and
her book of short fiction What the Tide
Brings have won national and
international recognition. Her other
books of poetry are Tejerás el destino / You Will Weave Destiny, Lips
of Stone, Fără preambul, Μαύρη μελάνη, Le sillabe del vento, Noche de
colibríes, and Corazón pintado.
Caraza has been translated into English, Italian, Romanian, and Greek; and
partially translated into Nahuatl, Portuguese, Hindi, and Turkish.
Xanath Caraza
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