Poet Marianna Guedez Forgiarini

Celebrate National Poetry Month with poet Marianna Guedez Forgiarini who will read from her book "Desde el Exilio". The book is a dystopic bilingual collection of poems of a young girl who journeys through the nightmares and hopes during the Venezuelan dictatorship. Concealing her identity, she recounts the most disturbing events of the darkest period of her country’s history and her own personal
transformation from the exile.

Marianna Guedez Forgiarini is an author and international translator. Originally from Venezuela, she earned two bachelor’s degrees in Classical Languages & Literature and Hispanic Languages & Literature along with receiving Valedictorian honors Summa Cum Laude. After college, she moved to the United States and began translating for companies in Silicon Valley. Along with translating, she discovered interpretation where she began helping at conferences including translating for the Governor of Oakland in 2017. In 2018, she published her first bilingual book, Desde El Exilio, a collection of poems of the Venezuelan people in poetic form. Shortly after publishing, her work has received international attention and press. Currently, she is pursuing her certification in Interpretation Studies from Boston University and sharing her message from what she learned in times of the Venezuelan downfall.