Carmen Ávila (Saltillo, México 1981). Ávila earned her doctorate in Public Policy from the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, with additional studies at Harvar...ver másCarmen Ávila (Saltillo, México 1981). Ávila earned her doctorate in Public Policy from the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, with additional studies at Harvard University and Carlos IV University in Prague. Her published work includes Mercedes del 63 y otros cuentos (ICOCULT, 2006), La máquina de vivir (Tierra Adentro, 2008), Praga como un cuerpo (Universidad Autónoma de Coahuila, 2009), Postales del exilio ( JUS 2013), Terrible extrañeza (SEC, 2013), El barco de los insomnes (Café Cultura, 2013), El virus de Munch (IMAC, 2017) and Ciudades Visibles (IMAC, 2017); as well as poems, stories, and essays available in both print and electronic media in Mexico and internationally. Several of her works have been translated into various languages. She received the Coahilua State Fund for Culture and the Arts’s Young Creators Grant for poetry in 2005 and 2012, as well as Mexico’s FONCA Essay grant in 2006. She won the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education’s Mauricio Babilonia Essay Competition, created in 2003 to celebrate the work of Gabriel García Márquez. She was a finalist in the 13th Annual María del Villar Poetry Competition in Navarra, Spain and was awarded honorable mention for the 2008 Joven Francisco Cervantes Vidal National Poetry Prize in Querétaro, México. She also won the 2010 Enriqueta Ochoa National Poetry Prize, the 2013 Rafael Ramírez Heredia National Story Award, and the 2017 Dolores Castro Award for Essays by Women. She has attended poetry festivals in Spain, Poland, and France (where she also held an artistic residency at the CAMAC Art Center through the FONCA grant). Her work, El virus de Munch, won the 2017 Dolores Castro Prize for Poetry by Women in Aguascalientes, Mexico.ver menos