Poet

Rocio Ceron

(Mexico, 1972)

Biography

Rocío Cerón is one of the major Mexican poets and multimedia artists of her generation. She combines poetry with music, performance and video and creates what she calls "Galaxy Projects: Loads of poetry, body, sound and image."

Cerón has written several volumes of poetry including Basalto (2002), for which she received the Premio Nacional de Literatura Gilberto Owen. Her collections Imperio/Empire (2009) and Diorama (2013) were published as bilingual Spanish-English editions. The latter won Cerón and her translator Anna Rosenwong the Best Translated Book Award of the online literary magazine Three Percent (University of Rochester). Her collection Tiento, (2010), appeared in a German translation by Simone Reinhard in 2011; and in Swedish in 2012 (translation by Ulrika Serling). Her poems have also been translated into Finnish, French, and Turkish.

BIBLIOGRAPHY
Anatomía Del Nudo, Complete works (2002 - 2015), CONACULTA, Colima, México, 2016.
Borealis Fondo de Cultura Económica México, 2016
Nudo Vortex, Edición Proyecto Literal México, 2015
Diorama, UANL - Tabasco 189 México, 2012
Tiento, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, México, 2010. Also available in German and Swedish
Imperio, Ediciones Monte Carmelo, México, 2008. Also available in German and Swedish
Apuntes para sobrevivir al aire, Ediciones Urania México, 2005
Soma, Eloisa Ediciones, Argentina, 2003
Basalto, Ediciones Sin Nombre México, 2002