A lawyer with a degree from the Universidad de Antioquia, Alberto Vélez has worked as a judge for 20 years. With only three slim books published in almost thirty years, Alberto Vélez might be considered a ‘strange’ poet, despite (and because of) the formal, almost conservative quality of his work (he is a faithful and devoted reader of the Spanish Golden Age, and is also resistant to some of the experimental avant-garde movements of the twentieth century.

Gloria Posada holds a degree in Anthropology from the University of Antioquia, a professorship in Plastic Arts from the National University of Colombia, a master’s degree in Aesthetics from the National University of Colombia and an advanced studies degree in Historical and Natural Heritage from the University of Huelva, Spain. She is also a candidate for the Social Anthropology doctorate at the University of Barcelona.

In 1992 she won the National Young Poetry Award of the Colombian Institute of Culture with her book Oficio divino (Divine Office). In 1991 she won second prize in the Carlos Castro Saavedra National Poetry Award, and in 1990 she was shortlisted for the Eduardo Cote Lamus National Poetry Award with Vosotras (You Women). Naturalezas (Natures) won a Honorable Mention in the Casa de las Américas Hispano-American Poetry Award (Havana, Cuba) in 2002. These prize-winning collections were later published. In 2002, she also won the Individual Creation Scholarship of the Colombian Ministry of Culture for her Lugares (Places) project. In 2004, she was granted the Colombia-Mexico artistic residence and the FONCA/CONALCULTA award of Mexico.