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Cecilia Pavón (born January 9, 1973, in Mendoza, Argentina) is an Argentine writer, poet, and translator. She lives in Buenos Aires, where she received her undergraduate degree in Literature from the University of Buenos Aires.

Biography
Cecilia Pavón was born in Mendoza, Argentina, on January 9, 1973. In 1992, she moved to Buenos Aires to study literature at the University of Buenos Aires.

Pavón first began publishing in 1998. In 1999, she and fellow Argentine artist and author Fernanda Laguna cofounded Belleza y Felicidad, an independent cultural center, gallery, small publishing press, and gift shop. During a trip to Salvador, Brazil, Pavón and Laguna became inspired by cordel literature's inexpensive production and distribution methods. Further, they admired its tradition of publishing marginalized poets. Belleza y Felicidad's publications were inexpensive, photocopied booklets, and it served as a platform for the diffusion of many relatively unknown artists and writers in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Belleza y Felicidad's publications were inexpensive photocopied booklets. Belleza y Felicidad closed in 2007.

Pavón poetry is considered to belong to an Argentine school of poetry called "The Poets of the 90s." Strongly associated with Belleza y Felicidad and Eloísa Cartonera, critics have associated these poets with contemporaneity and a rejection of the metaphysics and traditions of poetry. She has worked primarily with independent presses, including Eloísa Cartonera, Blatt & Ríos , Mansalva.

Pavón is known for her poetry, short stories, and flash fiction. Chris Kraus has described her poetry as "a close cousin of Dorothea Lasky's." Much of her fiction is written in the style of autofiction, and Pavón has stated that her writing is a mix of biography and fantasy.

In 2010, the Argentine publishing house Blatt & Ríos published Los sueños no tienen copyright ("Dreams Can't Be Copyrighted"), a collection of Pavón's short stories to date. In 2012, Argentine publishing house Mansalva anthologized Pavón's poetry in Un hotel con mi nombre ("A Hotel With My Name").

In 2015, the Key West–based publishing house Sand Paper Press published Belleza y Felicidad: Selected Writings, featuring works from Pavón and Fernanda Laguna translated to English by American poet and translator Stuart Krimko. That same year, the Sacramento-based publishing house Scrambler Books published A Hotel With My Name, a collection of Pavón's earliest poems translated into English by American translator Jacob Steinberg. In 2016, Scrambler Books published a second volume of Pavón's translated poetry and prose titled Licorice Candies.

In addition to her writing, Pavón is also a translator. Her translations from German, English, and Portuguese reflect her affinity for contemporary culture. They include works by Diedrich Diederichsen, Mercedes Bunz, Ariana Reines , Dorothea Lasky , and Chris Kraus.