Nery Santos Gómez is a Venezuelan-American author.
Biography
Nery Santos Gómez was born in Caracas, Venezuela on August 21, 1967. She currently holds a degree in Industrial Relations from the Andrés Bello Catholic University and a master's degree in Literary Creation from the Universidad del Sagrado Corazón in San Juan, Puerto Rico. She has stood out primarily as a result of her stories. Books published include Hilandera de tramas, Lazareto de Afecciones, and Al borde de la decencia. Other stories have been published in different anthologies internationally. Gómez has participated in the "Palenque" anthology, winner of the 2014 Puerto RicanPEN ClubLiterature Prize, with her story: Hacinamiento. She was a finalist, published in the Bovarismos International Women's Narrative Award 2014 contest in Miami with her story: Desde mi balcón. Moreover, she was among the winners of the Puerto Rican Writers' Guild "Entre Libros" short story competition in May 2016 and was published with her story: El mundo entero. Gómez was part of the Board of Directors of the Writers Guild of Puerto Rico in 2013 and 2014. She participated in the Borinquen Writing Project at the Universidad del Sagrado Corazón where she obtained the degree of "Writing Consultant”. She is currently a full member of the Colombian Academy of Letters and Philosophy of Bogotá, Colombia. Gómez's book Lazareto de afecciones was chosen by El Nuevo Dia as one of the best books of 2018. One year later, Lazareto de afecciones won three awards - Best Collection of Short Stories, Best Latino Fiction Book, and Best Popular Fiction Book - at the 2019 International Latino Book Awards, ILBA. Gómez's most recent book, Al borde de la decencia was announced as the winner of the 2019 International “Anaïs Nin” Literature Prize by the Spanish Sial Pigmalión Publishing Group in November of that year. In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Gómez served as the coordinator for the anthology "Cuarentena literaria. Poemas y relatos que escaparon al encierro", a compilation of poems and stories written by forty authors from ten countries and four continents in quarantine.
Publications
Books
Hilandera de tramas, 2012
Lazareto de afecciones, 2018
Al borde de la decencia, 2019
Transcending the Lazaretto, 2020
Stories
Las maletas, 2012
Hacinamiento, 2013
Desordenadas palomitas de maíz, 2013
Desde mi balcón, 2014
El mundo entero, 2016
Osadas orquídeas, 2018
Depresión, 2018
Yo, el fisgón de doña Elena, 2018
De mangos y mujeres divinas, 2018
Serendipitas, 2020
En la fila del cine, 2020
Cuarentena literaria. Poemas y relatos que escaparon al encierro'', 2020