Nela Rio

Nela Rio

Nela Rio is an internationally-recognized Argentine-Canadian author, artist, and arts organizer living in Fredericton where, for many years, she taught Latin American literature at St Thomas University. She retired in 2003. Her research specializes in Spanish American Colonial Literature, 16th /17th C., and in
Hispanic-Canadian Literature. Nela has been widely published in literary journals and anthologies in Canada, Spain, U.S.A., Honduras, Brazil, and in Argentina. She is the President of the Registro Creativo of the Canadian Asociation of Hispanist; the founder and organizer of the Annual Multilicultural Multilingual Poetry Recital (since 2000), and the Outspoken Art/Arte Claro, for the elimination of all forms of violence against women.

Awards
Jose Luis Gallego Literary Contest, Madrid, finalist, poetry, 1987.
Lena Literary Contest, Asturias, finalist, 1989.
Ana Maria Matute Literary Contest, Madrid, finalist, 1990.
La Felguera Literary Contest, Spain, finalist, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993.
Carmen Conde Literary Contest, finalist, poetry, 1991.
Special Merit Award, St. Thomas University, 1991.

Selected Publications
En las noches que desvisten otras noches. (Editorial Origenes, Madrid, 1989) ISBN: 84-7825
Aquella luz, la que estremece. (Ediciones Torremozas, Madrid, 1992) ISBN: 84-7839-079-0
Tunel de proa verde. Tunnel of the Green Prow. transl. by Hugh Hazelton. (Broken Jaw Press, 1998) ISBN: 0-921411-80-4
Cuerpo amado/Beloved Body (Broken Jaw Press, 2002) ISBN: 1-896647-81-2
During Nights that Undress Other Nights/En las noches que desvisten otras noches (Broken Jaw Press, 2003) ISBN: 1-55391-008-7
The Space of Light/El espacio de la luz (Broken Jaw Press, 2004) ISBN: 1-55391-020-6
The Mirrors Ask Questions/Los espejos hacen preguntas (Gold Leaf Press, 1999) ISBN: 0-9684572-2-3

Selected Anthologies
Antología del fuego. (Altorrey Editorial, Madrid, 1995).
Images of Ourselves: The Faith and Work of Canadian Women. (United Church Publishing House, Toronto, 1992).
An Anthology of Hispanic-Canadian Women Writers. (Forthcoming).
Latinocanada (McGill/Queen's University Press, 2007) ISBN: 978-0-7735-3207-6
One Wound for Another/Una herida por otra (UNAM, 2005) ISBN: 970-32-1380-4
Boreal (Verbum Veritas/La cita Trunca, 2002) ISBN: 1-894019-99-7

Books in Print
Rio, Nela
Aquella luz, la que estremece /The Light that Makes Us Tremble ( Broken Jaw Press, 2008) ISBN:  978-1-55391-066-4, $21 CDN, $23 US

Nela Rio
Email: nelario@gmail.com
Link: http://fis.ucalgary.ca/ACH/Registro/Nela_Rio/index.html
Link: http://outspokenart.withtheworks.net/

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