Ana María Caballero

Ana María Caballero was born in Miami, USA, in 1981 and grew up in Bogotá, Colombia. Now based in Spain, Caballero is a poet and artist whose work challenges traditional ideas about biology, society, and culture, particularly questioning romanticized motherhood and the idea of sacrifice as virtue. She has received numerous honors, including the Beverly International Prize, Colombia’s José Manuel Arango National Poetry Prize, the Steel Toe Books Poetry Prize, a Future Art Writers Award, and a Sevens Foundation Grant. In 2024, she made history as the first living poet to sell a poem at Sotheby’s and also sold the first digital poem via live auction in Spain.

Her poetry, nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net, has been widely published and exhibited as fine art in leading international venues such as the Wroclaw Contemporary Museum, Museo de Arte Miguel Urrutia, bitforms, Office Impart, Poetry Society of America, Gazelli Art House, New World Center, and Times Square. The author of several books, she is also a co-founder of the digital poetry gallery theVERSEverse.

A pioneer in web3 poetry, Caballero was the first artist to become a triple Lumen Prize Finalist. She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University, completing her honors thesis with support from Madrid’s Complutense University. As a graduate student at Florida International University, she earned both the winner and runner-up titles of the Academy of American University Poetry Prize.

Caballero believes deeply in the power of poetry as an art form, insisting that poetry and art are inseparable. Through her work, she invites audiences to see poetry not just as written words, but as a visual and emotional experience that pushes boundaries and opens new ways of understanding. Her art challenges conventional limits, blending language and visual expression to create meaning that resonates beyond the page.