Iliana Rodríguez
Born in Mexico City on May 30th, 1969, she received a diploma in Creative Writing from the School of Writers of the General Society of Writers of Mexico, Seventh Generation. She has a PhD from the National Autonomous University of Mexico.
She has published the following poetry books: Claroscuro (México, Mixcóatl, 1995), Efigie de fuego (Toluca, Mexico State Cultural Institute, 2003), Embosque (México, Autonomous University of México City, 2013) and Lapidario (Mexico, Fósforo-Secretariat of Public Education- National Institute of Fine Arts-National Council for Culture and Arts, 2013).
Her poems have been collected in the following anthologies and collective books: Anuario de poesía 1990, Periferia de Eros, Poesía en la Facultad, Las caras del amor, Poesía de raíces mágicas, Mujeres poetas en el País de las Nubes, Conjuro de luces, Espacios urbanos 2009, Changos y poetas, La semilla desnuda, Sueños al viento, Dondepalabra, Cinco siglos de poesía femenina en México, Caracoles extraviados, Estampida de poemínimos uacemitas and De Neza York a Nueva York.
She was one of the founders of the Revista Electrónica de Literatura Mexicana (Relim), and for more than ten years she has collaborated in the Suplemento Cultural y Literario of the newspaper Unión (informational organ of the Union of Workers of the National Autonomous University of México).
She has published poems, reports, articles and reviews in the following newspapers and magazines: Punto, Los libros tienen la palabra, El Nacional, La Jornada, Diario de Colima, Plural, Mar de tinta, Cultura Urbana and Dosfilos, as well as in the digital magazines AlterTexto, Nomastique and Monociclo.
She has given workshops on poetry for the diploma of the Center for Literary Creation Xavier Villaurrutia of the National Institute of Fine Arts. She is currently a full-time professor and researcher in Creative Writing, at the Autonomous University of México City-Del Valle campus.
