Ana Maria Caballero

Ana María Caballero is a Colombian-American poet and multidisciplinary artist, born in 1981. A graduate of Harvard, she received Colombia's José Manuel Arango National Poetry Prize for her debut collection Entre domingo y domingo and the Steel Toe Books Poetry Prize for her manuscript Mammal. With Sasha Stiles she co-founded theVERSEverse, a digital poetry gallery. In 2024 she became the first living poet to sell a poem at Sotheby's. Her series Being Borges reinterprets Jorge Luis Borges and Margarita Guerrero's 1957 bestiary The Book of Imaginary Beings; a work from it, The Sylphs, won the Lumen Prize's Still Image Award in 2025, after five previous appearances as a finalist. She has performed at the Venice Biennale and Art Basel, and held the solo show Echo Graph at Office Impart in Berlin in 2025. Her work is held in the collections of the Museo Reina Sofía, MACBA Barcelona and HEK Basel.