Mónica de la Torre was born and raised in Mexico City and is based in New York City. She is the author of six books of poetry, of which the most recent, Repetition Nineteen (Nightboat, 2020), centers on experimental translation. Other collections include The Happy End/All Welcome (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2017)—a riff on a riff on Kafka’s Amerika—and Public Domain (Roof Books, 2009). She has published several books in Mexico, including Acúfenos (Ditoria, 2007) and Taller de Taquimecanografía (Tumbona, 2011), written with the eponymous artists’ collective she co-founded. She writes about art and has translated works primarily from the Spanish. She also has co-edited several anthologies, most recently, Women in Concrete Poetry 1959–79 (Primary Information, 2020). She is the recipient of the 2022 Foundation for Contemporary Arts C.D. Wright Award for Poetry and a 2022 Creative Capital grant and teaches at Brooklyn College.

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