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My name is Dacxilia S. Deras de Zavaleta, I am a graduate of the Public Accounting career of the University of El Salvador, Resident in New York, United States.  I have also  trained as a multimedia artist, writer, digital creator, announcer, community manager, photographer, singing in mesosoprano voice and violin beginner level. I  dedicated the last nine years  to the world of art and part of that time to the writing and editing of contents in the genres of narrative and poetry. In that sense, I have expanded my knowledge in an integral way, also studying the current digital strategies for the positioning of personal brand, certifying myself as Content & Community Manager by the Galileo University of Guatemala, as well as the design of textile patterns for surface, fashion design, artistic painting techniques, up to the professional edition of contents. As a writer, I have promoted and published the editorial project of the monographic anthology "El Arte y Yo en tiempos de Pandemia en El Salvador" 2021, three poetry books of my authorship, and I shared participation in four poetic anthologies. Being the first with the publishing house Diversidad Literaria, Madrid, Spain 2017. As an artist among my apprenticeships I received  mentorship from outstanding masters of the plastic arts such as Gilberto Arriaza and Miguel Ángel Sermeño from El Salvador and Anna San Felippo from Argentina.  I have exhibited my artistic work in El Salvador and the United States, highlighting the series Music Make Painting Currents and Labyrinths and Quarantine's Landscapes. On the other hand, I have taken my experiences to the formation and application of art as a healing entity for the soul and body, so I have also worked as a Creative Arts Therapy Instructor, certified by The Complementary Medical Association of Saint Maurice, Paris, France.  I was awarded the prize for Artistic Creativity by the Municipality of Santa Ana, included in the faces of Salvadoran Literature in the work of the outstanding artist and writer Atilio Mungia; as well as mentioned in different printed journalistic media and digital literary magazines.

I currently run my own art studio and am the founder of the independent publishing Empire Books Editions in Queens, New York. Correspondent and director of the Art and Literature column of the digital newspaper ENNewssv.com and entrepreneur of my own brand as Community Manager.