Mexico

Gloria Gervitz was born in Mexico City, Mexico, where she lived for most of her life. In 2011, she moved to San Diego, residing there until her death on April 19, 2022. Gervitz studied art history at the Universidad...

Ramón García is a poet, writer, and scholar. Born in Colima, Mexico, and raised in Modesto, California, García earned a BA from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a PhD from the University of California...

Dr. Alan Pelaez Lopez is an Afro-Indigenous poet; an installation and adornment artist from Oaxaca, México; and a 2022 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellow. Lopez’s debut visual poetry collection...

Homero Aridjis was born in Contepec, Michoacán, Mexico. One of Mexico’s foremost poets and novelists, he is also an environmental activist and a diplomat. A former ambassador to the Netherlands, Switzerland...

Lucha Corpi was born in Jáltipan, Mexico. As a young woman, she trained to be a dentist before immigrating to the United States in 1964 with her husband, who was enrolled at the University of California–Berkeley...

Raúl Niño was born in Monterrey, Mexico, and grew up in the lower Rio Grande Valley, along the Texas gulf coast, and in the Chicago area. He is the author of Breathing Light (March Abrazo Press, 1991) and ...

Karen Villeda was born in Tlaxcala, Mexico. She began publishing poems when she was 17 years old and has won many of Mexico’s most important prizes for young and emerging poets, including a Youth Prize of ...

A poet, nun, dramatist, and scholar, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz was born in San Miguel Nepantla, Tepetlixpa, Mexico. As a child, she was inquisitive and gregarious: by the age of three, she could read; by six...

Dolores Dorantes is Mexican, living in exile in the United States. She is a priest in the Mahajrya Buddhist tradition. She founded the organization Cielo Portátil (for a free education), and is a journalist...

Luis Felipe Fabre was born in Mexico City in 1974. He has been awarded grants from the National Fund for Culture and the Arts in the category of Young Artists in the periods 2004–5 and 2007–8, and is a member...

Painter and poet Valerie Mejer was born in Mexico City. Her poems explore containment and fragility, layering loss and possibility over a once-familiar landscape. She is the author of the poetry collections...

Poet, novelist, short story writer, and translator José Emilio Pacheco was born in Mexico City in 1939. Pacheco’s collections of poetry include Siglo pasado (Desenlace): poemas 1999–2000 (approximately translated...

Mexican author Octavio Paz enjoyed a worldwide reputation as a master poet and essayist. Although Mexico figures prominently in Paz’s work—one of his best-known books, The Labyrinth of Solitude, for example...

A prolific writer for adults and children, Francisco X. Alarcón was born in California and grew up in Guadalajara, Mexico. Alarcón returned to the United States to attend California State University at Long...

Mexican poet and translator Coral Bracho was born in Mexico City, where she still lives and teaches. She is the author of several collections of poetry, including Firefly under the Tongue: Selected Poems (...

Víctor Terán was born in Juchitán de Zaragoza in 1958, and his work has been published extensively in magazines and anthologies throughout Mexico. His books of poetry include Sica ti Gubidxa Cubi (Like a new...

Poet, literary critic, and translator Pura López-Colomé was born in Mexico City. She spent part of her childhood in Mérida, Yucatan and attended high school in the United States. She studied literature at ...

Octavio Paz called Jaime Sabines “one of the greatest contemporary poets” of the Spanish language. Born in 1926 in Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas, Sabines made his way to Mexico City as a young man to study medicine...