A native of Colombia, she is an award winning poet, having been awarded the National Prize of Poetry from the Universidad Externado of Colombia (2003), and the Puentes de Struga International Poetry Prize (2005) for her debut collection, Puerto Calcinado, Cosas Frájiles y Chinatown a toda hora. Her latest collection is called La Ruina que Nombro. Cote-Botero's works have been translated into 7 languages, and on this program, she talks about why the Italian translation is her favorite, and about how her upbringing in a violent region in Colombia inspired her writing.