Carmen Villoro

• Name — Carmen Villoro • Born — 24 October 1958 • Birthplace — Mexico City, Mexico • Relatives — Luis Villoro (father) Juan Villoro (brother) • Occupation — psychologist psychoanalyst writer journalist • Years Active — 1960s-present

Carmen Villoro was born on 24 October 1958 in Mexico City and currently resides in Guadalajara. She studied psychology at the Universidad Iberoamericana and works as both a psychologist and psychoanalyst. She has been the coordinator of several poetry and story workshops including Juan Banuelos (1975), Raul Renan (1984) and Vicente Quirarte (1990). In addition to her other writing, she had been a correspondent for local newspapers including Acento, La Voz de Michoacán, Público de Jalisco and Siglo 21 and she has served as director of the cultural magazine Tragaluz. She published her first poems in 1986 and her work has been included in anthologies published in Colombia, Italy, Mexico, Paraguay, Spain, the USA and Venezuela.

• El oficio de amar, Pax-México, 1996. • El habitante, Cal y Arena, Libros de la Condesa, 1997.

• Por la piel (colectivo), UNAM, Punto de Partida, 1986. • Que no se vaya el viento, UNAM, El Ala del Tigre, 1990. • Delfín desde el principio, UAM, Margen de Poesía, núm. 26, 1993. • Herida luz, Hernández y Ramírez, Toque de Poesía, 1995. • Jugo de naranja, Trilce, Tristán Lecoq, 2000. • En un lugar geométricov, Juan Pablos/Ediciones Sin Nombre, Cuadernos de la Salamandra, 2001. • Marcador final, UMSNH, Luna de río, 2002. || El tiempo alguna vez, FCE/U. de G., Letras mexicanas, 2004. • Obra negra, Ediciones Arlequín, Canto de Sátiro, 2007.