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Certified Listener Poet,
Cohort 11 Summer 2025
Elizabeth Torres (b. 1987, Bogotá) is a Colombian-American poet, translator, and interdisciplinary artist residing in Denmark. Her work explores displacement, ecological grief, intergenerational memory, and cultural survivance. Torres holds an MFA from the Danish National School of Performing Arts, a BA in Liberal Arts, and completed undergraduate studies in Media & Film and Fine Arts. She is the author of over twenty poetry collections and the recipient of the 2022 Ambroggio Prize from the Academy of American Poets for Lotería: Nocturnal Sweepstakes.
Torres’s immersive installations integrate sound, archival materials, and ritual practices, centering BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, and neurodivergent perspectives within environmental and social justice. She is the founder of the international multimedia poetry archive Poetic Phonotheque, director of Red Door Magazine and Gallery, and host of the Red Transmissions podcast. Her work has been presented in over thirty countries and translated into multiple languages. She is also a Listener Poet for The Good Listening Project, where she composes poetry in response to narratives from healthcare workers, deepening her ongoing exploration of deep listening, attentive poetics and collective memory.