Pura López Colomé

Pura López Colomé is a poet, literary critic, and translator. Born in Mexico City, she spent part of her childhood in Mérida, Yucatan, and attended high school in the United States. She studied literature at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and published a regular column for the newspaper Unomásuno. English translations of her work include Watchword (Graywolf Press, 2012), translated by Forrest Gander; Aurora (Shearsman Books, 2007), translated by Jason Stumpf; and No Shelter: Selected Poems (Wesleyan University Press, 2002), translated by Forrest Gander. López Colomé has translated in Spanish works by Samuel Beckett, H.D., Seamus Heaney, Gertrude Stein, Virginia Woolf, and others. In 2008 she received the Xavier Villaurrutia Award, Mexico’s Pulitzer. She lives in Cuernavaca. (updated 8/2026)