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Ariel Florencia Richards is a Chilean writer and scholar of visual arts.
Richards is a recipient of the Bicentennial Fellowship, which supported her completion of a MFA in Creative Writing at New York University. She first published her poetry in pamphlets and zines which were presented at NY Art Book Fair and Santiago Museum of Contemporary Art. Her calligraphy is included in the Brooklyn Museum Libraries and Archives permanent collections. [1]
Richards teaches writing and architecture at Universidad de las Américas and is working toward a PhD at Pontificia Universidad de Chile. [1]
Richards is a transgender woman and transitioned at age 37. Her third book, Inacabada, is the first she published after transition. [2]
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