Ana María Caballero is a first-generation Colombian-American poet and artist who grew up between Miami & Bogotá. Her work explores how biology delimits our cultural rites, ripping the veil off romanticized motherhood and questioning notions that package female sacrifice as a virtue. The speakers in her poems find their voice by navigating the intellectual and the everyday, daring to name what’s left unsaid in the home.

She’s the recipient of the Beverly International Prize, Colombia’s José Manuel Arango National Poetry Prize, the Steel Toe Books Poetry Prize, and a Sevens Foundation Grant. Her Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net-nominated work has been widely published and exhibited internationally, recently at Gazelli Art House in London and at L’Avant Galerie Vossen in Paris.

Recognized as a digital poetry pioneer, her work with poetry on the blockchain has been covered by major media outlets, such as ARTnews, Forbes, Entrepreneur, and Elle UK. She’s been a speaker at events organized by the University of the Arts London, Sovereign Nature Institute, Untitled Art Fair, UNIT London, and the International Women of Blockchain Conference. Her work pushes the boundaries of how poetry is experienced, exhibited, and valued–often combining poetic & physical voice to create deeply immersive experiences.

She graduated with a magna cum laude degree from Harvard University. As a graduate student at Florida International University, she was runner-up for the Academy of American Poets Prize. She has three books forthcoming in 2023, written in the hours before the world wakes up. Much of what she writes in the dark can be read at anamariacaballero.com.

As cofounder of digital poetry gallery theVERSEverse, where poems are works of art, she’s helping to redefine poetry’s cultural agency and create new opportunities for writers, both economically and creatively.