Poet, translator, and scholar Mónica de la Torre was born and raised in Mexico City. She earned a B.A. from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México and, with the support of a Fulbright scholarship, relocated to New York in 1993 to pursue an M.F.A. and a Ph.D. in Spanish literature at Columbia University.
With dark humor, de la Torre’s poems explore our constructions of identity and trajectory. Her poetry collections include Public Domain (2008), Talk Shows (2007), and The Happy End/All Welcome, as well as two collections in Spanish. She has translated an array of Latin American poets including the late Gerardo Deniz, and co-edited the anthology Reversible Monuments: Contemporary Mexican Poetry (2002) with Michael Wiegers. Most recently her work appeared in the volume The Animated Reader: Poetry of Surround Audience (2015), published in conjunction with the New Museum’s Triennial. de la Torre’s honors include a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship. She has edited Bomb Magazine and the Brooklyn Rail. She lives and works in Brooklyn.
