Pura López Colomé Author

Pura Lopez-Colome was born in Mexico City in 1952. She spent her childhood and teenage years in the Mexican capital. During the school holidays she always went to Yucatan, the home state of her father, whose native tongue is Maya, and her mother who was of Catalan-Irish descent. Following the premature death of her mother, her father sent her to a boarding school in Yankton, South Dakota to complete her schooling. She then returned to Mexico to study Spanish and Latin American Literature at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM) in Mexico City. The author of several important books, including El sueno del cazador, Aurora, Intemperie, as well as a Collected Poems entitled Musica inaudita (Eds. Verdehalago, 2004), she is also the translator into Spanish of works by Samuel Beckett, H.D., Seamus Heaney, William Carlos Williams, Gertrude Stein, Robert Hass, Robert Creeley and others. A Selected Poems, titled No Shelter, was published in Forrest Gander's translation by Graywolf Press (USA) in 2002. Pura Lopez-Colome lives in Cuernavaca, Mexico, with her husband, a scientist and musician, and their children.