Carmen Boullosa is the author of a dozen volumes of poetry (in English translation by Lawrence Schimel, Harmatia), has published nineteen novels (the most recent ones, translated by Samantha Schnee, The Book of Eve and The Book of Anna), as well as books of essays and plays, some staged. She is a Distinguished Lecturer at Macaulay Honors College, CUNY, was a Guggenheim and a Cullman Center Fellow and has received, among other literary awards, the Casa de America at Madrid; in Germany, the LiBeratur and the Anna Seghers; in Mexico the Jorge Ibargüengoitia, the Villarrutia, the Excelencia en las Letras José Emilio Pacheco, and the Bellas Artes de Literatura Inés Arredondo). The NYPL holds her archive (to 2016).