Elsa Cross (Mexico City, 1946), has a Ph.D. in Philosophy and been consistently publishing her poems since the early '60s. Her life's work was gathered in Poesia completa 1964-2012 (Mexico City: Fondo de Cultura Economica, 2012), a mag-isterial collected edition that runs to almost 800 pages. 6 of the 28 volumes col-lected in that book received major prizes, including the Aguascalientes National Poetry Prize (1989), the Jaime Sabines International Poetry Prize (1992) and the Xavier Villaurrutia Prize (2007). More recently she has been awarded the National University (UNAM) Prize (2009) and the Poestate Prize (Lugano, 2015). Her work has been translated into many languages and has been featured in many anthologies in the USA and throughout Europe. She teaches philosophy of religion at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico.

Elsa Cross (Mexico City, 1946), has a Ph.D. in Philosophy and been consistently publishing her poems since the early '60s. Her life's work was gathered in Poesia completa 1964-2012 (Mexico City: Fondo de Cultura Economica, 2012), a mag-isterial collected edition that runs to almost 800 pages. 6 of the 28 volumes col-lected in that book received major prizes, including the Aguascalientes National Poetry Prize (1989), the Jaime Sabines International Poetry Prize (1992) and the Xavier Villaurrutia Prize (2007). More recently she has been awarded the National University (UNAM) Prize (2009) and the Poestate Prize (Lugano, 2015). Her work has been translated into many languages and has been featured in many anthologies in the USA and throughout Europe. She teaches philosophy of religion at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico.

Elsa Cross (Mexico City, 1946), has a Ph.D. in Philosophy and been consistently publishing her poems since the early '60s. Her life's work was gathered in Poesia completa 1964-2012 (Mexico City: Fondo de Cultura Economica, 2012), a mag-isterial collected edition that runs to almost 800 pages. 6 of the 28 volumes col-lected in that book received major prizes, including the Aguascalientes National Poetry Prize (1989), the Jaime Sabines International Poetry Prize (1992) and the Xavier Villaurrutia Prize (2007). More recently she has been awarded the National University (UNAM) Prize (2009) and the Poestate Prize (Lugano, 2015). Her work has been translated into many languages and has been featured in many anthologies in the USA and throughout Europe. She teaches philosophy of religion at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico.