Natasha Tiniacos is a poet, scholar, and literary translator from Venezuela. M.F.A. in Creative Writing (NYU), M.A. in Spanish and Comparative Literature (USC). She is a doctoral candidate in Latin American, Iberian, and Latino Cultures at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
She is the author of Against the Regime of the Fluent/ Contra el régimen de lo fluido with translations by Rebeca Alderete Baca (Ugly Duckling Presse 2024), Historia privada de un etcétera (Los libros del fuego 2016, La cámara escrita 2011), and Mujer a fuego lento (Equinoccio, Universidad Simón Bolívar, 2007) National University Prize in Literature, in Venezuela, and translator of Gabriel Dozal’s The Border Simulator/ El simulador de fronteras (One World, Penguin Random House, 2023). She has also collaborated as lyricist in the experimental opera Paraíso, composed by Sokio.
She has been an artist in residence at Campo Air Creative Institute (Uruguay), the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the International Writing Program of the University of Iowa, Vermont Studio Center, and Camac, Centre D’ Art in Marnay-sur-Seine (France). In 2019, she was selected for the New York Foundation for the Arts: Performing and Literary Arts 2019 program. She was also a US Embassy in Caracas visiting professor of American Literature at the Universidad Central de Venezuela.
Her poetry delves into fragmentation, a constant research and reaction to languages and sound. The line between English and Spanish is an axis for the spin of creation and translation. Her artist-teaching practice has focused on multilingual poetry workshops in the Washington Heights and Harlem communities in Manhattan. She has conducted these classes since 2019.
Upcoming:
Many Poems: New Poetics of South America in Translation at the Graduate Center, CUNY. https://centerforthehumanities.org/event/many-poems-new-poetics-of-south-america-in-translation/
Recent:
A choral reading of Sergio Chejfec’s and Mirtha Dermisache’s The Month of the Flies:
Contra el régimen de lo fluido/ Against the Regime of the Fluent presentation, organized by Ugly Duckling Presse and The P. I .T, with the support of Poets and Writers:
Switched On: The Dawm of Electronic Sound by Latin American Women, book presentation sponsored by Hitchcock Institute for Studies in American Music. November, 2024.
Poetry reading “Nuevas escrituras queer en español en Estados Unidos”, with Guillermo Severiche, Huáscar Robles, Mateo Sancho Cardiel, and Jacqueline Herranz Brooks. Feria internacional del libro ciudad de Nueva York. October, 2024.
Poetry reading and synthesizer performance in collaboration with Ulises Hadjis. IATI Theatre Performing Arts Marathon’s “Verse and Vision: Poetic Landscapes in Multimedia.” October, 2024.
Poetry reading alongside Gabriel Dozal of his book The Border Simulator/ El simulador de fronteras, invited by The Creative Writing Program at The University of Texas at El Paso. September, 2024.
The Border Simulator/ El simulador de fronteras by Gabriel Dozal was translated into Spanish by Natasha Tiniacos and published by One World. Read a review at the Poetry Foundation by Christopher Spaide.
Listen and read our NPR interview.
by Gabriel Dozal, Natasha Tiniacos (Translator)
Paraíso, an experimental chamber opera composed by Sokio with lyrical libretto by Natasha Tiniacos. National Sawdust, June 16th.