María Baranda

María Baranda was born in Mexico City. She has published several books of poetry and her work has been translated into Italian, Mandarin Chinese, French, Portuguese, Lithuanian, and English. Her latest books are Teoría de las niñas (Ediciones Vaso Roto and Edizioni Fili d’Áquilone in Italy, finalist for the 2021 Premio Letterario di Camaiore), Cañón de Lobos (UAQ, 2021), and The New World Written: Selected Poems (Yale University Press, 2021). Her most recent work as a translator, along with Paul Hoover, is The Complete Poems of San Juan de la Cruz (Milkweed Editions, 2021). She received the 2003 Premio Nacional de Poesía Aguascalientes, the 2015 Premio Sabines-Gatien Lapointe in Canada, and the 2018 Premio Internacional de Poesía Ramón López Velarde.