Lourdes Vázquez (born 1949) is a Puerto Rican poet, fiction and essayist writer and a resident of the United States.

[5] Her many collections, which have been translated into English and Italian by writers such as Bethany Korps-Edwards, Rosa Alcalá,[6] Enriqueta Carrington[7] and Brigidina Gentile[8] have received excellent reviews.

[11] She was the winner of the Juan Rulfo Short Story Award (France)[12] in 2002:[13] category Literate World.

In 2004, her Bestiary: Selected Poems 1986-1997 received an Honorable Mention in the Foreword Reviews Book of the Year Awards.

In 2008 the Library and Archives of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies / CUNY invited her to donate her documents.