Raquel Chaves

Raquel Chaves is a Paraguayan poet, journalist, novelist, and educator.
Chaves is a professor of English literature at the Universidad Nacional de Asunción. She is a contributor to the SEP, and a proponent of women's participation in education. In addition to her own writing, Chaves has translated many important authors. Her collection of mythical mini-poems Espacio Sagrado cover a male pilgrim's wanderings through the sky and across the earth, as he experiences dreams, symbols and confined spaces before finally arriving at the Sacred Space.
Other works of Chaves include Tierra Sin Males, Todo es del Viento, Siete Viajes and Partes del Todo. Chaves' poetry focuses on transcendence, illustrates how the mind achieves awareness of self, explores the individual soul, and reflects the Paraguayan concern with transcendence in connection with the feast of the Virgin of Caacupe.