Career
Chaves has been professor of English literature at the Universidad Nacional de AsunciĆ³n. She is a contributor to the Software Engineering Professionals (Paraguayan Society of Writers). She is a proponent of women"s participation in education.
In addition to her own writing, she has translated many important authors.
Her collection of mythical mini-poems Espacio Sagrado (Sacred Space, 1988) cover a male pilgrim"s wanderings through the sky and across the earth, as he experiences dreams, symbols and confined spaces before finally arriving at the Sacred Space. Other works include Tierra Sin Males (Land without Evil, 1977), Todo es del Viento (All is of the Wind, 1980), Siete Viajes (Seven Voyages, 1984) and Partes del Todo (Parts of the Whole, 2000).