Myriam Moscona

Myriam Moscona is a Mexican poet and journalist of Bulgarian Sephardic descent.

Moscona is the author of nine books, including Vísperas (Fondo de Cultura Económica, México, 1996), El que nada (ERA, México, 2006) and De par en par (Bonobos, México, 2009), which explores poetry beyond its traditional construction. Her poetry book Ansina (in press), is her first book written completely in Ladino.

Ivory Black (Negro marfil), received in New York, for the translation of Jen Hofer,  the 2012 Harold Morton Landon Award from the Academy of American Poets and the 2012 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation.

 Moscona has received numerous awards, including the Premio de Poesía Aguascalientes. She is a grantee of the Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte, and she was awarded a grant from the Guggenheim Foundation. Her novel Tela de sevoya (Random House Mondadori, 2012), published also in Argentina and Spain, received the prestigious prize Xavier Villaurutia, 2012.

 She leaves with is dog Isaac.