About me

CLAUDIA FERRADAS MUSIC & WORDS

Claudia Mónica Ferradas is a writer, singer and teacher educator with extensive international experience. She is based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where she graduated as a teacher of English and has taught language and literature for many years.

She holds an MA in Education and Professional Development from the University of East Anglia and a PhD in English Studies from the University of Nottingham. She has co-chaired the Oxford Conference on the Teaching of Literature (Corpus Christi College) on five occasions.

Claudia writes poetry in Spanish and in English. In her poetry readings she likes to put poetry in dialogue with songs. She also has a multilingual poetry and drama podcast and a YouTube channel which features academic presentations and poetry readings.

Blowing dandelions,
as my grandmother taught me.
Air to air;
as we’ll be dust to dust.

From “Dandelions” (2019)