Victoria Ramírez Mansilla is a Chilean poet from Santiago. She is the author of the poetry book Magnolios (Overol, 2019) and the fanzine Alud (Amistad, 2018). She is a journalist and has published in different magazines about literature. At MacDowell, she worked on her second book of poetry, Notes On Plants, a project about vegetal intelligence focused on the possibility of plants to lie and feel, in the context of global warming and climate change. Ramírez was awarded the Roberto Bolaño Prize in 2016, the Gabriela Mistral Municipal Literary Games prize in 2017, and the Best Literary Work Award from Chile in 2020. In 2019, Ramírez was a resident in "entreLineas," a project of the Goethe Institute to connect artists from Germany and Chile. She has also been included in poetry anthologies in Chile, Spain, France, and Argentina.
Victoria Ramírez Mansilla
Studios
Phi Beta
Victoria Ramírez Mansilla worked in the Phi Beta studio.
Funded by the Phi Beta Fraternity, a national professional fraternity of music and speech founded in 1912, Phi Beta Studio was built from 1929–1931 of granite quarried on the MacDowell grounds. The small studio is very simple in design, but displays a pleasing combination of materials with its granite walls and colorful slate roofing. Inside is a…