Mexico

Jorge Volpi 

Jorge Volpi is a doctor in law and a teacher of Mexican literature at the UNAM (Autonomous University of Mexico) and holds a PhD in Hispanic Philology from the University of Salamanca. The author of nine…...

Rafael Lemus 

Hector de Mauleon 

Hector de Mauleon was born in Mexico City in 1963. He is the author of the novel El secreto de la Noche Triste, the short-story collections La perfecta espiral  and Como nada en el mundo,  and…...

Magali Tercero 

Magali Tercero is a journalist in Mexico City. She is the author of the books Cuando llegaron los bárbaros . . . Vida cotidiana y narcotráfico (2011); San Judas Tadeo, santería…...

Luis Felipe Fabre 

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,…...

Yuri Herrera 

Yuri Herrera (Actopan, México, 1970) received his BA in Political Science at UNAM, his MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Texas at El Paso, and his Ph.D at the University of California…...

Rafael Pérez Gay 

Rafael Pérez Gay was born in 1957.  His books include the short story collections Me perderé contigo (1988), Esta vez para siempre (1988), Llamadas nocturnas (1993), and El corazón…...

Fabrizio Mejía Madrid 

Fabrizio Mejía Madrid was born in Mexico City in 1968. He is the author of the novels Viaje alrededor de mi padre (2004); Hombre al agua (Joaquín Mortiz, 2004), which was awarded the Premio…...

Guadalupe Nettel 

Born in Mexico City in 1973, Guadalupe Nettel is a prolific young Mexican author and a regular contributor to both Spanish- and French-language magazines, including Letras Libres, Hoja por hoja, L'atelier…...

Olvido García Valdés 

Olvido García Valdés was born in Asturias, in northern Spain, during the era of Francisco Franco.  She uses the white space on the page to intensify the sense of a world where language…...

Eve Gil 

Eve Gil was born in Hermosillo, Sonora, in 1968 and currently lives in Mexico City. She is the author of several novels, including Réquiem por una muñeca rota (2000), Cenotafio de Beatriz…...

José Eugenio Sánchez 

José Eugenio Sánchez, born 1965, is an award-winning poet from Monterrey, Mexico, whose books include La felicidad es una pistola caliente and Physical graffiti, the latter of which won him…...

Gabriel Magaña Merlo 

Gabriel Magaña was born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico in 1944. He has published four books of poetry in Mexico and numerous poems in various magazines. Insumiso al rostro, a selection of poems…...

Liliana V. Blum 

Liliana V. Blum was born in Durango, Mexico, and lives in Tampico. She is the author of The Curse of Eve and Other Stories, forthcoming from Host Publications. Translations of her stories have appeared…...

Fritz Glockner 

Fritz Glockner studied History at the Universidad Autónoma in Puebla, Mexico, and has been an editor, a bookseller, and a promoter of culture and reading. In addition to teaching at various universities…...

Marcos Xiu Cachon 

Wenceslao Yeh and Marcos Xiu Cachón write in Yucatecan Maya and live in the remote area of Quintana Roo.

Wenceslao Yeh 

Wenceslao Yeh and Marcos Xiu Cachón write in Yucatecan Maya and live in the remote area of Quintana Roo.

Rosario Sanmiguel 

Rosario Sanmiguel, a native of Manuel Benavides, Chihuahua, Mexico, is the author of a novel, Árboles o apuntes de viaje (PuenteLibre Editores, 2006), and a collection of stories, Callejón…...

Coral Bracho 

Coral Bracho was born in Mexico City. She has published eight books of poetry, including El ser que va a morir (1982). Among her grants and prizes are the Aguascalientes National Poetry Prize, the Xavier…...

David Huerta 

David Huerta, son of the important poet Efraín Huerta, is generally acclaimed as the greatest Mexican poet of his generation. He is director of the tabloid Periódico de Poesía. "Calendaria"…...

Álvaro Enrigue 

Álvaro Enrigue is a writer and editor. His first novel, La muerte de un instalador, won the Joaquín Mortiz Prize in 1996. His second novel, El cementerio de sillas (Lengua de trapo, 2002),…...

Juan Villoro 

Juan Villoro (b. 1956) has been Professor of Literature at Mexico’s National University, and Visiting Professor at Yale, Princeton, and the Pompeu Fabra University at Barcelona. He has received the…...

Ambar Past 

Poet and alchemist Ambar Past was born in Durham, North Carolina, in 1949, descendent of a wheelwright, Piast, who in 840 became the first king of Poland. Past's mother was a painter and her father…...

Alberto Ruy-Sánchez 

Born in Mexico City in 1951, Alberto Ruy Sánchez is the author of books of fiction, essays, and poetry, which have been translated into many languages. He is best known for a series of novels, which…...

Carmen Boullosa 

Carmen Boullosa (born in Mexico City in 1954) is one of Mexico's leading novelists, poets, and playwrights. She has published fifteen novels, the most recent of which are El complot de los románticos,…...

Enrique Serna 

Enrique Serna was born in Mexico in 1959. He studied Spanish Literature and has made a name for himself among readers and critics alike as an author of novels, short stories and essays. In 2000, he won…...

Gabriel Pacheco 

Jesús Salinas Pedraza 

Jesús Salinas Pedraza writes in Ñahñu and Otomi. He was born in the state of Hidalgo, Mexico.

Agustin Jimenez Garcia 

Librado Silva Galeana 

Librado Silva Galeana was born in Santa Ana Tlacotenco, Mexico, in the 1940s. He studied to be a teacher, and is noted for his mastery of classical and contemporary Nahuatl. He writes stories depicting…...

Enrique Pérez López 

Enrique Pérez López is director of the Centro Estatal de Lenguas, Arte y Literatra Indígenas (CELALI).

Miguel Angel May May 

Miguel Angel May May is a member of the board of many organizations, from Escritores en Lengua Indígenas in México to the Howard Meredith Indian Humanities Center at the University of Science…...

Victor de la Cruz 

Victor de la Cruz is a widely published poet and the author of many works that were originally part of the Zapotecan oral tradition. A scholar as well as a writer and an editor, he has been a researcher…...

Santiago Domínguez Aké 

Santiago Domínguez Aké, born in 1951 in Muxupip, Yucatán, has been working since 1981 as an artist in the Yucatan regional administration. In 1997, his work "Kool tu kaajil Muxupip"…...

María Luisa Góngora Pacheco 

Lázaro Márquez Joaquín 

Lázaro Márquez Joaquín lives in Chenanástico, Paracho, Michoacán.

Ismael García Marcelino 

Ismael García Marcelino lives in Ihuatzio, Tzintzuntzan, Michoácan. He works with the Coordinación Interinstitucional de los Indigena de Michoacán.

Pancho Nácar 

Pancho Nácar is the pseudonym of Francisco Javier Sánchez Valdivieso, a Zapotec poet born in 1909 in Juchitán, Oaxaca. He published a few poems in Zapoteco during his lifetime, but…...

Fausto Guadarrama López 

Fausto Guadarrama López lives in the state of Mexico, home to the Mazahuas. He has written about his people and has become a spokesman for bilingual (indigenous/Spanish) education in Mexico. ...

Juan Gregorio Regino 

Juan Gregorio Regino is one of the leading poets in indigenous languages in the Americas. He is Mazatec, born in 1962 in Chicicazapa, Solyaltepec, Oaxaca. In 1987, he received his bachelor's degree…...

Victor Terán 

Victor Terán was born in Juchitán, Oaxaca, in 1958. He has received recognition and a grant from FONACULTA (National Foundation for Art and Culture). Carlos Montemayor, the critic, translator,…...

Francisco de la Cruz 

Juan López Palacios 

Gerardo Can Pat 

Auldárico Hernández 

Marcos Matías Alonso 

Marcos Matías Alonso is a member of the National Assembly of Indigenous People for Autonomy and the National Indigenous Congress. He holds a degree in anthropology and research grants from the Center…...

Briceida Cuevas Cob 

Briceida Cuevas Cob, born in Tepakán, Kalkiní, in 1969, is recognized as one of the rising stars of Mexican poetry. Much of her work has already appeared in English, some of it in In the…...

Rita Molina Elias 

Rita Molina Elias has Tacuaro, Chilchota, and Michoacan heritage.

Javier Castellanos 

Lorenzo Hernandez Ocampo 

Lorenzo Hernandez Ocampo, a biologist as well as a writer, was born in Santa Catalina Chinango, Oaxaca.

Gilberto Jerónimo Mateo 

Natalia Toledo Paz 

Natalia Toledo Paz was born in Juchitán, Oaxaca, in 1967. She writes in both Zapotec and Spanish and participates in national and international poetry meetings. She has written several books, has…...

Miguel León-Portilla 

Miguel León-Portilla (b. 1926) is recognized worldwide as the leading authority on Aztec (Nahua) history, literature, and philosophy. His 1959 work, La Filosofia Nahuatl estudiada en sus fuentes,…...

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