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Coral Bracho

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Coral Bracho was born in Mexico City, where she still lives and teaches. She is the author of several books of poems, including Firefly under the Tongue: Selected Poems (2008), translated by Forrest Gander; and Tierra de entraña ardiente, in which she collaborated with the painter Irma Palacios. Among her grants and prizes are the Aguacalientes National Poetry Prize in 1981 and a Guggenheim fellowship in 2000. Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Bomb, Conjunctions, The Nation, and Poetry International.

Residencies
  • 2012