She has received an "Antonio Machado" Award for the poem "Polifonía sobre rieles" among participants from 29 countries in Madrid, Spain, on October 17, 2011.
She is a finalist at the international poetry contest of "Ciudad Melilla" in Spain and at the concurso "Letras de Oro" at the University of Miami.
She has read her poetry in the International Poetry Festival of Medellín, the Library of Congress, the New York Public Library, the Haskell Center, the Folger Shakespeare Library, the Fundación Pablo Neruda in Chile, the Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional in Madrid and Barcelona, Spain, the King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, New York University, the University of Kentucky, the City University of New York, the University of Pécs in Hungary, and many other venues.
Her poetry has been included in numerous anthologies in Latin America, Europe, Canada and the United States.
A worldwide traveler, since 1977 she left her native Colombia, lived in several countries and has visited more than thirty.