Juan Garrido-Salgado

Juan Garrido Salgado has lived in Australia since 1990. He has published ten books of poetry in Australia, Chile and Honduras. His work has been widely translated into several languages.

Juan has translated works by Australian and Aboriginal poets into Spanish. In 2019, he read poems from his book When I was Clandestine (Rochford Press) as part of a poetry tour at the Granada International Poetry Festival in Nicaragua, and in Mexico and Cuba. His most recent collection is Hope Blossoming in Their Ink (Puncher & Wattmann 2020).