Rafael Cadenas is in every sense Venezuela's senior poet.
Rowena Hill was born in England in 1938, and has lived for forty-five years in Venezuela. She has published five books of her own poetry in Spanish, as well as translations of South Indian poetry including medieval metaphysical poems, a collection of the work of the dalit poet Mudnakudu Chinnaswamy, and an anthology of contemporary women poets. Her translations into English include South Indian poetry, a bilingual compilation of Venezuelan women poets (Profiles of Night, bid&co, 2007), Selected Poems of Rafael Cadenas (bilingual, bid&co, 2009), Goodbye to the Twentieth Century, Eugenio Montejo (bilingual, Ed. Actual ULA, 2014), and The Blind Plain, Igor Barreto, (Tavern Books, 2018).