Carmen Boullosa (Mexico City, 1954) is the author of nineteen novels (The Book of Eve, and Texas: The Great Theft translated by Samantha Schnee, Before, translated by Peter Bush), collections of poetry (Hatchet, translated by Lawrence Schimmel), plays and essays. She has collaborated with visual artists and has done herself artists books since the late seventies. Some of her work has been exhibited at the Museo de Arte Moderno, the Carrillo Gil, and the MUNAL in Mexico, and the Sala Ruiz Picasso at Madrid, among others. She was a Guggenheim, a DAAD, and a Cullman Fellow, and the recipient of literary prizes in Mexico (the Xavier Villaurrutia, Ibargüengoitia, José Emilio Pacheco, Inés Arredondo, José Juan Tablada), the Anna Seghers and the LiBeratur in Germany, and in Spain the Café Gijón, Rosalía de Castro and Casa de América de Poesía Americana. The show “Nueva York” on CUNY-TV has won her seven NY-EMMYs. She has been visiting professor at Georgetown, Columbia, NYU, SDSU and Clermont Ferrand, was a faculty member at City College CUNY, and is a Distinguished Lecturer at Macaulay Honors College, CUNY. The New York Public Library houses her archive. She splits life between Coyoacán and Brooklyn.
