From 1983-1987, Torres was Deputy Director of Colombia’s National Library. She has a B.A. in Modern Languages from the Universidad de Antioquia in Medellín, Colombia, and a Master’s in Women, Gender, Development from the Institute of Social Studies (ISS) in The Hague. She left Colombia in 1987, lived in Holland until 2002, and currently resides in Barcelona, Spain, where she works as translator and writes poetry, fiction, and essays. She has published eight books of poetry, several of which have earned national poetry awards in her native Colombia. Álvaro Pineda Botero