Violeta Vicente Miguelez


Disciplines: Literature – poetry
Disciplines: Literature – poetry
Based in Stanford, CA
Residencies: 2025
Portrait by: Joanna Eldredge Morrissey

Violeta Miguelez is an Argentine author who has been living in California for the past four years. Her poems have been featured in literary magazines across various countries, including Awen (Venezuela), Extrañas Noches (Argentina), El Beisman (U.S.), Vuela Palabra (U.S.), and Periódico Girón (Cuba).

At MacDowell, Vicente Miguelez worked on a verse novel about sexual awakening in adolescence. The work follows the reflections, sensations, and experiences of two teenagers spending the summer on the coast of Brazil, a setting where nature is steeped in eroticism.

Studios

Calderwood

Violeta Vicente Miguelez worked in the Calderwood studio.

In the winter of 1998, motivated by his passion for reading, Stanford Calderwood donated funds for a new writers’ studio. Stanford Calderwood, a newspaperman in his youth who later went on to establish an investment firm, was a lover of nonfiction and was a member of MacDowell’s board of directors…

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