​Julia Sáenz Lorduy (Bogotá, Colombia) writes, teaches,  curates and makes textile art. She studied sociology and math at Columbia University in the City of New York. In 2022 she completed a Master in Fine Arts (MFA) in creative writing at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts).  She was awarded the graduate teaching fellowship for a class she proposed: feminist text(ile) practices, on feminist practices in text and textiles, a critical studies course offered to undergraduates in the fall of 2022. Her work threads education, writing and textiles as practices of the self and to weave different futures. Espejismo, her first poetry collection, was recognized at the XX Premio de Poesía Obra Inédita by Tertulia Literaria, and it will be published by Valparaíso.​

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