Fanny Carrión de Fierro

Who is Fanny Carrión de Fierro?

Fanny Carrión de Fierro is a poet, literary critic, essayist and university professor.

She received a Doctorate in Literature from the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador, as well as a Master of Arts degree from the University of California at Berkeley, and a Bachelor's degree in Education from the Central University of Ecuador.

She has written and published essays on several topics, including political, cultural and social issues. These include essays on gender issues, human rights, children's rights, the indigenous movement, and linguistics.

Her poems have also been included in several anthologies, including These Are Not Sweet Girls: Poetry by Latin American Women and Eye to Eye-Women: Their Words and Worlds.

She has received several literature awards, including: the Gabriela Mistral National Poetry Award; the National Poetry Award of Ecuador; and the "Juana de Ibarbuoru" Poetry Prize, Montevideo.

In the fall 2006 elections, she wrote and published electronically an essay titled "Towards the Fifth Power", on the importance of civil society participation to consolidate democracy.

Carrión de Fierro has been a university professor at several universities in Ecuador and the United States. She is currently a professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador. She has also been a visiting professor and Fulbright Scholar at Keene State College in New Hampshire, a visiting professor at Willamette University in Oregon, and a professor at several other universities in Ecuador.