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Miguel Avero

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Miguel Avero is a poet, narrator, essayist, teacher, and researcher whose work has been translated into English and French. He writes literary reviews for the weekly Brecha and has appeared in various national and international anthologies. Since 2011, he has published nearly a dozen books of poetry and fiction. His first poetry collection in English, Aguas, was published in 2025 by the Washington Writers’ Publishing House. He lives in Montevideo, Uruguay.

Premier Book in The Biennial WWPH Translation Series.

WWPH Publications by Miguel Avero

Testimonials

  • These translations are stunning in their ability to bring the melody and magical realism of Avero’s Uruguayan Spanish into English-language poems

    The Washington City Paper

  • The poems flow together, brimming with rain and flood and density.

    MAYDAY

  • An author, young in age and mature in writing, with seven books to his credit, I am fortunate to know personally and read again, in this hydrating selection by Jona Colson. Here Avero’s work is an open window that transforms readers into children looking at the sky and adults waiting for the sun after the rain because: the sky observes us / like a naked abyss, / water establishes / its celestial hegemony.

    Javier Etchevarren, Author of Fable of an Inconsolable Man

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