bio

Ana María Caballero is an award-winning Colombian-American poet and multidisciplinary artist whose work explores embodiment, memory, care and the cultural ethics of emerging technologies, while reimagining poetry and the book for contemporary and digital worlds. Working across poetry, performance, moving image and generative systems, she develops digital poetics grounded in what she terms analog generativity: a practice that treats readership and the body as legitimate inputs into computational systems.

Her work interrogates how biology shapes cultural rites and questions gendered notions of sacrifice and virtue, foregrounding physicality, voice, and vulnerability as legitimate inputs into computational systems. Across media, her practice centers slowness, intimacy and care as aesthetic and ethical principles.

A leading figure in contemporary poetics, Caballero is the first living poet to sell a poem via Sotheby’s and a quintuple Lumen Prize finalist and winner. Her work has been recognized with the MAXXI Bvlgari Award, a Sevens Foundation grant and a Knight Foundation Art + Tech Fellowship nomination.

Her work has been exhibited internationally at institutions including the Victoria & Albert Museum (London), HEK Basel, the Carmen Thyssen Museum (Málaga), the Francisco Carolinum Museum (Linz), the Wroclaw Contemporary Museum, the Museo de Arte Miguel Urrutia (Bogotá), Times Square, Sotheby’s and the New World Center (Miami). Her work is held in public collections such as the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, MACBA Barcelona, Fundación March, the Ashmolean Museum, the Francisco Carolinum Museum, HEK Basel and MAD Arts Museum. Private collectors that hold her work include the Arab Bank of Switzerland, Spalter Digital, the Stahlberg Collection, ADAC Foundation and Le Random.

Caballero is the author of eight books. Her first book of poetry, Entre domingo y domingo, received Colombia’s José Manuel Arango National Poetry Prize and was rereleased by Valparaíso Press in 2023; an Italian translation was published by Edizioni Ensemble in 2025. Her books A Petit Mal (nonfiction) and Mammal (poetry) received the International Beverly Prize and the Steel Toe Books Award in Poetry, respectively. Her forthcoming poetry collection Material received Trio House Press’ Editors Choice Award and will be published in 2026. Her debut novel Cuts received the 2025 Clay Reynolds Prize from Texas Review Press.

Her literary work has appeared in The L.A. Review of Books, The Academy of American Poets Magazine, The North American Review, Poetry International, Salamander and Tupelo Quarterly, among others. She is a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee and a Best of the Net nominee.

She has spoken at venues including the Venice Biennale, Art Basel, Fundación March, Fundación Telefónica, Gray Area, Sotheby’s, the Americas Society, University of the Arts London and Art Dubai.

Caballero graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University. She’s based in Madrid and is a contributing writer for Forbes, covering digital culture. She cofounded the digital poetry gallery theVERSEverse, which was shortlisted for the Lumen Prize and the Digital Innovation in Art Award.