Janisset Rivero

Janisset Rivero

Janisset Rivero was born in Camagüey. She left Cuba as a political refugee and lived for several years in Venezuela. She has a degree in Communications and Advertising from the New Professions University Institute in Caracas, and in Spanish from Florida International University (FIU) in Miami. In 2003 she completed a master's degree in Latin American literature from FIU.

She is a founding member of the Cuban Democratic Directorate, she represented this organization internationally in forums such as the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of the OAS and the Human Rights Council of the UN.

She has published poems, essays, and articles in newspapers and magazines in Venezuela, Puerto Rico, and the United States.

She is the author of the published poetry books "Ausente" (Spain, Aduana Vieja, 2008), "Testigos de la noche" (United States, Ultramar, 2014) and her first novel "Cartas a Pedro" (Spain, Verbum, 2021). In preparation for publication is the collection of poems " Diálogos con la luz."