Mónica de la Torre

Mónica de la Torre was born and raised in Mexico City. She earned a BA from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México and, with the support of a Fulbright scholarship, relocated to New York in 1993 to pursue an MFA and a PhD in Spanish literature at Columbia University. She is the author of six books of poetry, most recently Repetition Nineteen (Nightboat Books, 2020), and a translation of Defense of the Idol (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2018) by Chilean Modernist Omar Cáceres. De la Torre has served as the poetry editor of The Brooklyn Rail and senior editor of BOMB Magazine. She lives in New York City and teaches at Brooklyn College and Bard’s summer MFA program.