Kyra Galván

KYRA GALVÁN (MEXICO, 1956–)
A prolific writer, Galván’s poetry has won many prestigious awards and honors, including the 1980 Mexican National Young Poet’s Prize for her collection Un pequeño moretón en la piel de nadie / A Little Bruise on the Skin of Nobody. She has been a fellow at the National Institute of Fine Arts as well as at the Mexican Writers’ Center. The feminist perspective in her poems also informs her first novel, Los indecibles pecados de Sor Juana / The Unspeakable Sins of Sor Juana, published in 2010.