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BIO
Yankilé Hidalgo
(Havana, Cuba 1973)
Yankilé Hidalgo has lived for more than 23 years in Quito, Ecuador. She teaches language and literature at the Liceo Campoverde. She wrote the lyrics for two songs that were selected to participate in the Lo Zecchino D´Oro contest in Bologna—“Canzone indigena” (2002) and “Verso l´aurora” (2012); the former is considered one of the 50 best songs for children in that country. She wrote the youth lit book Nostalgias de un rey sin corona, (Santillana, 2009) and the poetry collection Para nada inocente published by El Ángel Editor in 2017. Her poems appear in the anthology Paralelo Cero (2018), and she was twice invited to participate in that international festival, and in Antología de poetas cubanos: Versos desde afuera de Éxodus de Ego by the Kaska Foundation in Miami (2019) and in Antología Diez navíos para la memoria (El Ángel Editor, Quito, 2020).
An essay appeared in Dossier Homenaje a Liliam Moro and she also wrote the microstory “El Ego” in the short story anthology Cuentan que un perro, cuentan que un gato: La devastación de la inmadurez (Miami, 2021). She is the author of the poetry collection La ira de Circe to be published by Ilíada Ediciones and Música para torturados, to be published by Cuesta Ediciones.
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VIDEO
Lecturas en tiempo with Yankilé Hidalgo
