Belén

Belén (short for Maria Belén Rios Sialer) is a Peruvian poet. In the past, she has published 6 Poems in “Connecting... A Collection of Virtual Verses | UBC Slam Poetry Chapbook Volume 5 (2021)" and had a poem displayed in the Exhibit “A Celebration of Poems”(2022) at UBC Koerner Library. Her love for poetry led her to take the MFA course CRWR 501J Advance writing of Poetry and attend UBC's 18th Annual Creative Writing Summer Residency as an undergrad student.

Born and raised in Lima, she moved to Toronto and then Vancouver to follow a BA in Psychology with a Minor in Creative Writing at The University of British Columbia.