Tedi López Mills

Tedi López Mills was born in Mexico City in 1959. She has published ten books of poetry, several of which have received national prizes in Mexico: Cinco estaciones; Un lugar ajeno; Segunda persona (Premio Nacional de Poesía Efraín Huerta); Glosas; Horas; Luz por aire y agua; Un jardín, cinco noches (y otros poemas); Contracorriente (Premio Nacional de Literatura José Fuentes Mares); Parafrasear; and Muerte en la rúa Augusta (Premio Xavier Villaurrutia). She also published a collection of essays, Libro de las explicaciones, in 2012. (Photo credit: image courtesy of Noticias Voz e Imagen)