MÓNICA SARMIENTO CASTILLO ARCHER (Loja, Ecuador) has dedicated her life to art, literature, teaching, and cultural management. Her identity combines Indigenous and European roots. She earned her PhD in Visual Arts from the Complutense University of Madrid. She is an Adjunct Professor at Hofstra and Adelphi Universities in New York, director of the bi/Coa Foundation: Bicultural Community of the Americas, and co-director of the journal Puente Atlántico (ALDEEU).

She has published the poetry collections Parallel Universe (New York Poetry Press, 2025, forthcoming in four languages), Can/Calm Down (Salerno: Officine Pindariche, 2025), and Brota el sonido - haikus (Quito: El Ángel Editor, 2022), and, in collaboration with other authors, Babel, Poesía multilingüe – Multilingual Poetry (Salerno: Officine Pindariche, 2024). Her poems appear in: Anthology (Vol. 4, New York City International Book Fair), Anthology: Chronicle, Short Story, Micro-Story, and Poetry (Vol. 4, New York, 2024), Ibero-American Poetry Collection, Mexico City (Mexico: Konesh Arte y Cultura, 2023), Multilingual Anthology: The Americas Poetry Festival of New York (New York: Artepoetica Press, 2023), Octámbulos (Quito: El Ángel Editor, 2022), Puentes/Bridges: Anthology of Narrative (New York: Ediciones Híbridos, 2022), Continuo Discontinuo Continúo (QuitoEl Ángel Editor, 2020), and Entre Rascacielos (New York: St. John's University Poetry Magazine, 2013).

As a visual artist, she is part of collections at Casa de América (Madrid), the Metropolitan Museum of New York (MEt), the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), the José Luis Cuevas Museum (Mexico), the Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA), and the Royal House of Spain, among others. In 2012, she received the Royal and Distinguished Spanish Order of Charles III, and in 2006, she represented Latin America at the 60th anniversary of UNESCO, held in Valencia. For more information, visit: www.bicoa.org