Opening Fear by Teresa Orbegoso

Teresa Orbegoso (Lima, 1976) Visual artist. Poet. Cultural journalist. Social researcher. Cultural organizer. Curator. She holds a degree in Journalism from the Universidad Jaime Bausate y Mesa (Peru) and a Master's Degree in Creative Writing from the Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero (Argentina). She has a diploma in Advertising Creativity and studies in Philosophy and Musical Creation: Traditional Arts and New Technologies. She has received scholarships from the OAS, INDES IDB and Tallberg Foundation to participate in seminars and workshops for social leaders organized in Brazil, Colombia, United States and Sweden (2001­2006). She has published the poetry collections Yana wayra (Lima, Urbano Marginal, 2011), Mestiza (Buenos Aires, Ediciones del Dock, 2012), La mujer de la bestia (Maldonado, Trópico Sur, 2014), Yuyachkani (together with visual artist Zenaida Cajahuaringa, Lima, La Purita Carne, 2015), Perú (Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires Poetry, 2016), Comas (Buenos Aires, Añosluz, 2018) and Abro el miedo (Lima, Hanan Harawi Editores, 2019; Argentina, Las Furias Editora, 2020). Abro el Miedo / Opening Fear, a testimonial poetry book about her experiences with cancer, was nominated for the Luces Prize from the Peruvian newspaper El Comercio, in the category "Best poetry book". In 2022 she received a grant from the Peruvian Ministry of Culture to present her books Peru and Abro el miedo at poetry festivals in Spain. Her poetry book Perú has been published in Mexico, Guatemala, Peru and Spain. Her work has been included in a number of academic studies in Chile, Mexico, the United States and Sweden. She has been invited to several poetry festivals in Latin America and her work has been included in various online magazines around the world. Her work has been included in anthologies of contemporary South American poetry in Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Peru. She has been director of the Casa Cultural ­ Espacio de Arte Trenzando Fuerzas, and currently runs the publishing house La Primera Vértebra and hosts the program "La danza de las libélulas" for the platform La mula in Lima, Peru together with the sociologist and therapist Marco Del Mastro. As a media producer, she has created a series of diverse materials that allow for the mediation between readers and the book, among which stand out: the music composed for the book La casa sin sombra by the Argentine writer Claudio Archubi; the videopoems made for her books Yana wayra, La mujer de la bestia, Perú and Abro el miedo; the podcast "Cuerpas" for the poetry journal La primera vértebra, and a cycle of interviews to Latin American writers for the Casa Cultural ­ Espacio de Arte Trenzando Fuerzas.