Mónica De La Torre

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 jointly with the eponymous women artists’ collective she co-founded. She writes about art and has translated numerous works from the Spanish, among them Omar Cáceres’s Defense of the Idol (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2018). She also has co-edited several anthologies, most recently, with Alex Balgiu, 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. She teaches poetry at Brooklyn College.