Adriana López

Adriana López is a teacher and Maya-Tseltal translator from Chalam del Carmen, Ocosingo, Chiapas. She holds a degree in Anthropology from the Department of Social Sciences, Campus III. She has participated in a number of creative writing seminars and programs. In 2003 she received the Premio Estatal de Poesía Indígena Pat O' tan. She is the autor of Jalbil K’opetik/Palabras Tejidas (2005) and Naetik/Hilos (2011), the latter being part of Tierra Adentro magazine’s La Ceibita series. She won a Jóvenes creadores grant from FONCA for 2009-10, 2012-13, and 2016-17.She translated Rosario Castellanos’s poetry collection “El rescate del mundo” into Tseltal (2011), and in 2015 was recognized by the Ocosingo’s city government for her distinguished career as an Ocosingan poet and writer. At present she is a professor at the Universidad Intercultural de Chiapas.