Juchitán, Oaxaca, 1967. Zapotec poet and storyteller. She has published more than ten books, including The Black Flowers, published by Phonemé Media; the magazine World Literature Today lists this collection of poems amongst the 75 best translations in the world. Her poetry has been translated into Mazatec, Maya, Nahuatl, Mixtec, English, French, Slovenian, Italian, German and Punjabi. In 2022, she was awarded the Borchard Foundation Centre on Literary Arts Prize; in 2017, she was named a Member of the National System of Creators; and in 2004, she received the Nezahualcóyotl Prize for Literature in Mexican Languages.