Juan Garrido-Salgado

Juan Garrido-Salgado is a poet, translator and human rights activist. He immigrated to Australia from Chile in 1990, fleeing the regime that burned his poetry and imprisoned and tortured him for his political activism. He has published eight books of poetry, and his poems have been widely translated. His most recent collection is Hope Blossoming in Their Ink 2020 Published Puncher & Wattmann.
Juan was one the the judges for the 67th Blake Poetry Prize 2022 with Judith Nangala Crispin and Anthony Lawrence.

At Adelaide Writers’ Week 2022 Juan contributed to the poetry performance ‘a ruthless muse’. He reviews Supervivid Depastoralism by John Kinsella- ‘Words, Land/Activism and Ink as a Testimony of the Poet’ (Plumwood Mountain-an Australian International Journal of Ecopoetry and Ecopoetics) Vol 8 Number 1 –2022.

The 2022 BR4R Seeking Asylum Poetry Prize supported by the journal Social Alternatives poems will be judged by poet Juan Garrido-Salgado.