Zaira Pacheco

Born in 1987 in San Juan, Zaira Pacheco holds a PhD in Hispanic Philology from the University of Barcelona and is a professor of language and literature in the Spanish Department at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras. She is the author of three books of poetry: Ciutat (2016), Despertar en el Sahara (2019) and La melancolía de Durero (2022), as well as the books of essays Androginia y deseo en Póstumo el transmigrado (2018) and Ciudad y desencanto, Manuel Abreu Adorno (2021). She has published poems and articles in La Torre, Decimonónica, En rojo, Revista Cruce, Blue Gum, Distropika, and Diario de Cuba, among others.