Eugenia Toledo

Eugenia Toledo was born in Temuco, Chile, and grew up in the same neighborhood as Pablo Neruda. She completed higher degrees in Spanish, and came to the US for doctoral studies after her university instructorship was terminated following the 1973 military coup. She received an MA in Latin American Literature and a PhD in Spanish Literature from the University of Washington, and settled in Seattle to teach and write. She has published several texts and manuals for adult education in Chile; a...See more

Eugenia Toledo was born in Temuco, Chile, and grew up in the same neighborhood as Pablo Neruda. She completed higher degrees in Spanish, and came to the US for doctoral studies after her university instructorship was terminated following the 1973 military coup. She received an MA in Latin American Literature and a PhD in Spanish Literature from the University of Washington, and settled in Seattle to teach and write. She has published several texts and manuals for adult education in Chile; a study of the Spanish writer Fray Luis de Leon; three books of poetry in Spanish, Arquitectura de ausencias / Architecture of Absences , (Editorial Torremozas, Espana); Tempo de metales y volcanes / Time of Metals and Volcanoes , (Editorial 400 Elefantes, Nicaragua); the new Casa de Maquinas / House of Machines , (400 Elefantes, Nicaragua); and a chapbook, Leaf of Glass , which won an Artella contest. At Seattle's Richard Hugo House, Toledo has taught poetry writing in Spanish, and with Carolyne Wright, team-taught a course on Pablo Neruda. A bilingual manuscript of poems, Trazas de mapa, trazas de sangre / Map Traces, Blood Traces , was written after Toledo's travels in Chile in 2008 with Carolyne Wright--a journey of return and re-encounters with the friends and experiences of her youth. Poems from this manuscript, in translation by Carolyne Wright, have appeared in basalt, Cirque, Hayden's Ferry Review, Inventory, Los Angeles Review, New Letters, Palabra, Poetry International, Rio Grande Review, ZYZZYVA , and the chapbook, La luz ambarina de la lluvia: Letras de Temuko / The Rain's Amber Light: Letters from Temuco . With her husband, Toledo divides her time between Temuco and Seattle. See less