Silvia Favaretto, poetess and narrator, has received various literary prizes at the end of the nineties (Avis La Torre, Inves, Valle Senio) and she has participated to some international festivals of poetry as the festival of Poetry of Medellín (Colombia) and those of Guatemala, El Salvador and Argentina. She has published the book of bilingual poems "La carne del tiempo" (Artificios, Bogotá, 2002), the fable "La farfalla Rossella" (Pordenone, 2003), the book of poems "Parole d'acqua - Palabras de agua" (Empoli, 2007), winning Ibiskos Prize of Antonietta Risolo. With Christian Panebianco she has published "La tetra santità e il variopinto orrore"(2004). She has also directed the essay "Narrative femminili cubane tra mito e realtà" (Venice, 2003). She Works as teacher and as Italian/Spanish translator.