(Mexico City, 1958)
She was born in Mexico City, and has lived in Guadalajara since 1985. She has published several books of poetry and poetic prose, including:Que no se vaya el viento (colección El Ala del Tigre, UNAM, 1990), El habitante, (Editorial Cal y Arena1997 and second edition Paraíso Perdido, 2018), El tiempo alguna vez (Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2004), Jugo de naranja (Trilce Ediciones, 2000 and 2008), Obra negra (Editorial Arlequín, 2006), Espiga antes del viento (Secretaría de Cultura de Jalisco, colonia Clásicos Jaliscienses, 2011, and second edition La Zonámbula, 2020), Liquidámba (Mantis Editores, 2017), Zurcido invisible (Mantis Editores, 2023) and No estás tú para saberlo (Typotaller, 2025). She has published the book of essays Poesía necesaria (Mexican Culture Seminar Guadalajara Correspondent, 2023) and children's books Papalote, papelito (collection Giraluna, Ediciones SM,2004), Amarina y el viejo Pesadilla, Media luna, and Veranor (collection of Amigos de Letras para Volar, University of Guadalajara, 2022). Her book Jugo de naranja has been translated into French by the Écrits des forges publishing house, Quebec, Canada, 2017, and her book Liquidámbar has been translated into Italian by Editorial Fili d'aquilone, Rome, Italy, 2020, and into French by Editorial L'Harmattan, Paris, France, 2022.
She is the author of several chapters in collective books of literature, art, education, and psychoanalysis.
She was a fellow of the National System of Creators of the National Fund for Culture and the Arts (FONCA) (2000 to 2006). She received the Jalisco Prize in Letters in 2016; the Hugo Gutiérrez Vega International Arts and Humanities Prize, in 2018; the Francisco González León Prize, in 2019; the distinction as an Emeritus Creator 2021 by the Government of Jalisco. Member of the Seminar of Mexican Culture, of the Meritorious Society of Geography and Statistics, and of the academic collective UC-Mexicanistas. She is a full-time professor, director of the Octavio Paz Ibero-American Library and head of the Fernando del Paso Chair of Art, Poetics and Literature at the University of Guadalajara. www.carmenvilloro.com
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