María Belén Cañas

Born in 1988 in Buenos Aires. She is a writer, poet, playwright, and political scientist. She works in public housing policies. She published the novel Naturalezas muertas with the Agua Viva publishing house. She won Second Prize in the 42nd General Cabrera National Short Story Contest and received an Honorable Mention in the 43rd Contest. She participated in the federal poetry anthologies Jardín (2021), Campo (2022), and Niñez (2023) as part of the Proyecto Camalote. Her journal Las Guerras was selected as a finalist in the 2022 Independent Latin American Nonfiction Prize. La quietud, a short story about a mother-daughter vacation, received an Honorable Mention at the 2023 Manuel Mujica Láinez Literature Prize, organized by the Municipality of San Isidro, and will be published in an anthology in 2024. She will also participate in a poetry anthology by Paisaje Ediciones. As a playwright, she wrote Querido Ricardo, a one-woman show selected by Ciclo Hembra, an initiative that works to stage plays written and directed by women and feminized identities. She also directs it. She is currently working on a poetry collection and a nonfiction literary project titled Diccionario del ruido.

Belén will be doing her residency at Can Serrat in August 2024.