Carmen Boullosa

Carmen Boullosa is a poet, novelist, and playwright. She has received numerous awards, among them the Xavier Villaurrutia Prize, the LiBeraturpreis in Germany, and the Café Gijon Novel Award. She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Center for Scholars and Writers of the New York Public Library (now the Cullman Center). She has been a distinguished professor at Georgetown University and San Diego State University, has held the Andrés Bello chair at NYU and the Reyes chair at the Sorbonne, and was a visiting professor at Columbia and Blaise Pascal. She is part of the faculty of CUNY and the National System of Art Creators in Mexico. Her most recent publications are the poetry collection La patria insomnia (Hiperión) and the novels El complot de los románticos (Siruela) and Texas (Alfaguara).