Venezuelan and Colombian. A writer and journalist, she graduated in Social Communication from the Andrés Bello Catholic University in Caracas, Venezuela, where she later pursued postgraduate studies in History. She earned a degree in Communication and Art from the Complutense University of Madrid and completed diplomas in Women and Gender (Pontifical Javeriana University of Colombia) and Historical Memory (University of Antioquia, Colombia). She began her career in playwriting with her text La decisión de Antígona, a reinterpretation of the classic character for the Ago Teatro group. She then wrote the play América Primero, which received an Honourable Mention in the Ramón Lameda National Literature Competition. She moved to Madrid to further her writing training, where she participated in various workshops at Casa de América, Cuarta Pared (International Summer Courses), Teatro Alameda (Seville International Puppet Festival), Las Aulas, and the Madrid School of Writers, among others. She moved to Colombia in 2008 seeking an environment that would foster the development of her literary project, and in 2014 published her first novel, La Ciudad Vencida, which was a finalist for the Critics' Prize for Novel of the Year (Venezuela). Her second novel, Las Costuras Invisibles, won second place in the 5th Javeriana National Novella Biennial (Colombia), leading to its publication by Editorial Javeriana. In 2025, Editorial Tránsito (Madrid) reissued Las Costuras Invisibles for Spanish readers in April of that year. Poleo is the author of the short story "El nombre maravilla" (Digopalabra.txt) and her text "El Mosca Ligero" is included in the anthology Arena en los pies (Madrid School of Writers). She has been invited to share her creative experience as part of the literature courses Violence and Unrest in the Latin American Lettered City (Notre Dame University, Indiana, 2018); and Riots, Rebellions & Revolutions in Latin America (Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota, 2023).
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