María Margarita López Díaz (Oriente de Antioquia, Colombia, 1946) or Fairy Swallow of the Moon for the children in her rural village. Poetry books published, among others: Sulabena (2018), La nave de Nausicaa (2014), Morada de Sibilas (2009) and Murumsamas (2000). Some of her works are entitled with Colombian ancestral words, like “Sulabena” (the invisible star that only the Arhuacos of the Sierra Nevada can see) or “Murumsamas” (also for the Arhuacos, the guardian spirits that watch over culture). She directs creative writing workshops in her home country and abroad, and conducts cultural radio programs in national university radio stations. Accolades: Honorable Mention in the contest Aldea Poética in Spain (1996) and in the contest Xicoalt, in Salzburg, Austria (1994). Marga says she aspires, as did the Chinese poets of the second century, to the poetic degree of Contemplator of the Horizon. “In my soul, I will always be a nine-year-old, forever. I live, as in the haiku of the Japanese poet, ‘Right on the east side of the Milky Way’. Gaudeamus!”
