Poet, painter, and essayist Valerie Mejer was born in 1966 in Mexico City.
Her poetry books include Geografías de Niebla, Esta Novela Azul, Ante el Ojo del Cíclope, and, later this year, De la ola, el atajo. Her poems in English have appeared in Poetry London, Hunger Mountain Review, Fascicle and Nimrod. She has translated (in collaboration with E. M. Test) Charles Wright's Apalaquia/Apalachia and Pascal Petit's The Zoo Father/ El Padre Zoológico.
She is the recipient of two FONCA grants, the Spanish Government’s “Gerardo Diego 1966” International Award, and a recent grant from Sistema Estatal de Creadores to translate the Australian poet Les Murray.
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