Yolanda Pantin (born 1954) is a Venezuelan author who has mainly written poetry, although she has also worked in children's literature. Early life and education Born in Caracas, the eldest of eleven siblings, she spent her childhood in Turmero, Aragua. There, she studied arts at the Escuela de Artes Plásticas (renamed, Escuela de Artes Visuales Rafael Monasterios). In 1974, she returned to Caracas to study literature at Andrés Bello Catholic University (UCAB). Career Pantin, who is included in the literary generation of 1978, founded that year the university group "Rastros". Her first texts appeared in the magazine, which she herself illustrated. The following year, she won an honorable mention in the Francisco Lazo Martí award with Casa o lobo, her first collection of poems, which would be published in 1981 by Monte Ávila Editores. In 1979, she joined the literary workshop "Calicanto", directed by the writer Antonia Palacios, where she rubbed shoulders with various writers of her generation. In 1981, she left Calicanto and co-founded , which broke with and questioned the nocturnal poetic approaches that prevailed in Venezuela at that time. Tráfico published a literary manifesto that criticized the poetic canons they considered outdated, which had a wide repercussion and promoted aesthetic renovation. In 1986, the awarded Pantin a creative scholarship to promote her literary projects. She also worked as a cultural journalist for the weekly Número and as co-editor of Qué Pasa. In 1989, she was one of the founders of the publishing house Pequeña Venecia, which publishes poetry. In 1990, with Santos López, she created the "Casa de la Poesía Foundation". In 2001, the María Lionza statue in Caracas was the inspiration for Pantin's poem "The pelvic bone"; in the poem, the narrator travels into Caracas for a protest and sees the statue. The image of the pelvis – its "most notable feature" – stays in the narrator's mind, and the poem goes on to address the statue directly. Pantin has been invited to book fairs and poetry festivals including the First Poetry Biennial (1991) in Val-de-Marne, France, and the Moscow Poetry Biennial (2019). Fond of photography, Pantin participated in the Dedicatorias exhibition held at the Fundación La Poeteca in 2019. There, a selection of images she took in 2008 while making the Trans-Siberian route could be seen. Awards and honours 1979, Honorable Mention, Francisco Lazo Martí National Poetry Prize, for Casa o lobo 1982, Honorable Mention,