Elaine Vilar Madruga

Cuban poet and narrator, member of the Asociación Hermanos Saíz. Coordinator of the Fantasy Literature Workshop Espacio Abierto. Graduate of the XI Onelio Jorge Cardoso Literary Training Course.

Student of Dramaturgy at the Instituto Superior de Arte.

Graduate of Secondary Level Music in classical guitar specialization from the Escuela Nacional de Arte (ENA) and from the Academia de Etnografía y Tradiciones Canarias in Cuba, in Literature. Collaborator and editor of the digital magazine La Voz de Alnader. Graduate of the XI Onelio Jorge Cardoso Literary Training Course. Member of the AHS. Coordinator of the Fantasy Literature Workshop Espacio Abierto.

Among her awards are:
Honorable Mention in the Iberoamerican Story Contest BBVA Casa de América 2007, winner of the Twelfth "Indio Naborí 2008" prize for décima. Special Mention of the David 2009 for poetry and the Calendar (science fiction 2006, children's poetry and narrative 2009), winner of the Extraordinary Prize of the International Contest "Garzón Céspedes" 2008, Second Prize for Story Juventud Técnica 2008 and 2009, International Fantasy Poetry Prize Minatura 2009, Caballo de Fuego for poetry 2009, Creation Fellowship La Noche 2010, First Prize of the International Love Letter Contest 2010 "Escribanía Dollz", Farraluque Prize for Erotic Poetry 2010, mention of the Luis Rogelio Nogueras for science fiction 2010, Speculative Poetry Prize "Oscar Hurtado 2011", Second International Prize for mythological poetry "Evohé La Revelación 2011", mention in the Benito Pérez Galdós poetry contest 2011, First Mention of the Colateral Prize Nuestro Tiempo of the Story Contest "Ernest Hemingway 2011", finalist of the I International Fantasy Story Contest "Descubriendo Nuevos Mundos", in the long story category; winner of the Second Prize of the III International Poetry Contest "El mundo lleva alas", mention of the XVI literary contest Ciudad del Ché for poetry, among others. She has organized the Theoretical Events of Art and Fantasy Literature "Behíque 2009", as well as the two editions of "Espacio Abierto 2010" and "Espacio Abierto 2011". Co-editor of the Cuban science fiction and fantasy literature magazine "Korad".

She has published the novel "Al límite de los Olivos", Editorial Extramuros 2009.
Anthologist of the fantasy story collection "Axis Mundi", currently in the editing process at Editorial Gente Nueva.
Her work has been published in various anthologies in Spain, England, Venezuela, Argentina, Uruguay, United States, Chile, and Cuba.

Alongside her work as a narrator, poet, and literature promoter, she worked at the Teatro Musical de La Habana in the Amphitheater of the Historic Center, under the direction of master Alfonso Menéndez; as an actress and singer in a musical show that premiered in April 2010, where she played the role of Carlota in Andrew Lloyd Weber's The Phantom of the Opera and Mrs. Potts in Alan Menken's Beauty and the Beast.

Member of the guitar trio Confluencias. She works as a guitar and singing teacher at the Casa de Cultura de Playa Mirtha Aguirre, where she founded the first guitar orchestra made up of children and young amateur members of the community, whose program includes both national repertoire and works from the ancient and baroque periods on an international scale.