Claudia Cavallin is a professor at the Department of Languages and Literatures at Oklahoma State University. She is a regular contributor to the newspaper El Nacional (“Papel Literario”) and the magazines Carátula, Latin American Literature Today, and Trópico Absoluto. Her work has also been published in Cuadernos Fronterizos and Efecto Cocuyo.
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