Born: 21 December 1959, Canada
Died: NA
Country most active: Mexico
Also known as: NA
The following is republished with kind permission from the Enciclopedia de la Literatura en México.
Nació en Québec, Canadá, en 1959. Narradora y poeta. Licenciada en Geografía por la Universidad de Florida, donde también obtuvo el diplomado en Estudios Hispánicos. Traductora certificada por la Sociedad de Traductores de Québec de la Université de Montréal. Ha sido tallerista de redacción en la librería del FCE en Guadalajara y editora de la revista de arte y cultura Tragaluz. Colaboradora del suplemento Acento Cultural del periódico La Voz (Michoacán). Becaria del programa de estímulos a la creación artística de CONACULTA y la Secretaría de Cultura de Jalisco, 2004-2005. Premio Nacional de Traducción Literaria en poesía 1997, otorgado por el INBA. Segundo lugar del Premio Nacional de Cuento Victoria de las Mercedes 2001. Finalista del Premio de Cuento Breve Acento 2005.
Born in Quebec, Canada, in 1959, she is a novelist and poet. She holds a degree in Geography from the University of Florida, where she also earned a diploma in Hispanic Studies. She is a certified translator through the Quebec Society of Translators at the University of Montreal. She has led writing workshops at the Fondo de Cultura Económica (FCE) bookstore in Guadalajara and served as editor of the art and culture magazine Tragaluz . She is a contributor to the Acento Cultural supplement of the newspaper La Voz (Michoacán). She received a grant from the CONACULTA and Jalisco Ministry of Culture’s program for artistic creation in 2004-2005. She won the National Literary Translation Prize in Poetry in 1997, awarded by the National Institute of Fine Arts (INBA). She placed second in the Victoria de las Mercedes National Short Story Prize in 2001 and was a finalist for the Acento Short Story Prize in 2005.