Pura López Colomé is a Mexican poet, translator and literary critic. Twelve of her poetry collections have been published under the title Poemas reunidos 1985-2012. Her latest book of poems is Via Corporis (Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2016). She has translated several of Seamus Heaney’s works, collected in the bilingual edition Obra Reunida (Conaculta, 2015). Among the literary honors she has received are Premio Xavier Villaurrutia (poetry), Premio Nacional Alfonso Reyes (essay), Premio Nacional de Traducción Literaria (for her translation of Heaney’s Station Island). She lives in Cuernavaca, México.
