Gaby Sambucetti

Gaby Sambuccetti, born in Argentina in 1986, is a UK-based writer. She is a teacher of Latin American and Spanish literature, and holds an MA in Modern Languages, Literature and Culture from King’s College London where she won the 2022 Cosmo Davenport- Hines poetry prize. She is the founder of La Ninfa Eco, publishing writers from across the world, and was Events Co-Director at the Oxford Writers’ House. Her latest book is The Good, the Bad & the Poet (2020), and her reviews and other writing have appeared in magazines, anthologies and on literary platforms in Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Germany, Bolivia, the US, Mexico, Chile, Spain, Bangladesh, India, and the UK. She is currently studying a postgraduate course in Modern Languages at the University of Oxford.

My Bits of Glass

So many bits of glass
separate us
that maybe
only stones
can shatter
the distance between you and me

From Equidistant Voices: Latin American Poets in the UK ed. Enrique Zattara, translated by Isabel del Rio (2023).