Celia Correas de Zapata

{{Short description|Argentine academic, poet, and author (1933–2022)}}

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Celia Correas de Zapata (9 October 1933 – 21 August 2022) was an Argentine academic, poet, and author, and a leading scholar of the history of Latin American women writers.{{cite book|last=Marting|first=Diane E.|title=Spanish American women writers: a bio-bibliographical source book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lrLI2BJkPu4C&pg=PA468|accessdate=19 February 2011|year=1990|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-25194-8|pages=468–}}{{cite book|last1=Erro-Peralta|first1=Nora|last2=Silva-Núñez|first2=Caridad|title=Beyond the border: a new age in Latin American women's fiction|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GjlIAAAAYAAJ|accessdate=19 February 2011|date=May 1991|publisher=Cleis Press|isbn=978-0-939416-42-4|page=11}} She was a professor of literature at San Jose State University, and was director of the 1976 Conference of Inter-American Women Writers, one of the earliest U.S. conferences in this field.

Correas de Zapata was born in Mendoza, Argentina on 9 October 1933. She edited the anthology Short Stories by Latin America Women: The Magic and the Real with an introduction by Isabel Allende. Correas de Zapata latterly resided in Clovis, California, where she died on 21 August 2022, at the age of 88.{{cite web |title=Celia Maria Correas Zapata |url=https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/fresno-ca/celia-correas-zapata-10898444 |website=Dignity Memorial |access-date=24 August 2022}}