Mónica de la Torre

Mónica de la Torre (she/her) was born and raised in Mexico City. Her full-length poetry collections include Pause the Document (Nightboat Books, 2025), Repetition Nineteen (Nightboat Books, 2020), The Happy End/All Welcome (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2017), Public Domain (Roof Books, 2008), Talk Shows (Switchback Books, 2007). With artist Terence Gower, she co-authored the art book Appendices, Illustrations & Notes (Smart Art Press, 1999). Her books written in Spanish and published in Mexico include Acúfenos (Taller Ditoria, 2006) and Taller de Taquimecanografía (Tumbona Ediciones, 2011), written with the eponymous artists' collective she co-founded. Her translations from Spanish include Lila Zemborain’s Mauve Sea-Orchids (Belladonna Books, 2007; co-translated with Rosa Alcalá) and Poems by Gerardo Deniz (Lost Roads Publishers, 2000), which she also edited.

As an editor, de la Torre has co-edited several anthologies, most recently, Women in Concrete Poetry 1959–1979 (Primary Information, 2020) and Reversible Monuments: Contemporary Mexican Poetry (Copper Canyon Press, 2002). She is the recipient of the 2022 Foundation for Contemporary Arts C.D. Wright Award for Poetry, a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship, and a 2022 Creative Capital grant and teaches poetry and translation at Brooklyn College.