Is a novelist, poet and dramatist. Her most recent publications are the poetry books La aguja en el pajar (Visor), La impropia (Taller Martín Pescador), and the novels The Book of Anna and El libro de Eva, as well as a two-volume compilation of eleven of her novels (Infancia e invención and Mundo, Penguin Random House). She won the 1990 Xavier Villaurrutia Prize, the City of Frankfurt’s Liberaturpreis for the German version of La Milagrosa in 1997, the Anna Seghers Prize given by the Berlin Arts Academy for her body of work in 1998, the Rosalía de Castro Award given by PEN Galicia in 2018, and Madrid’s Casa de América Prize for American Poetry in 2019. She has been a fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation, the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, a Distinguished Professor at Georgetown University and San Diego State University, Andrés Bello Professor at NYU, a professor at the Sorbonne and Visiting Professor at Columbia University. She has been on the faculty at the City University of New York (CUNY), at both City College and Macaulay Honors College. She lives in Coyoacán and Brooklyn.
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