Keila Vall de la Ville

Keila Vall de la Ville (born in Caracas, Venezuela on February 19, 1974) is a Venezuelan author living in the United States.

While pursuing her BA in anthropology at the Universidad Central de Venezuela she won a silver medal at the Rock Climbing Panamerican Championship (Copa Alpina, Bogotá 1996) and was one of the three climbers of the first all-female attempt to Tepui Roraima (1998), one of the ancient geological formations of the Guyana Shield (border between Venezuela, Colombia and Brazil).

Her thesis involved a research study on the political values and practices of Chaguaramas de Loero, a small community in the northeast Venezuelan coast.

[6] In 2006 her first short story book Ana no duerme was finalist in the Concurso Nacional de Autores Inéditos Monte Ávila Editores.

Since 2011 Jamming Poético has staged readings and conversations around Venezuelan and US Latino poetry in Caracas, Miami, New York City, Bogotá, and online.