Rocío Cerón

Rocío Cerón is a Mexico City-based poet, essayist, and visual sound artist. Cerón is the author of fourteen poetry collections, including Nudo vortex (Literal Ediciones, 2015), Borealis (Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2016), Imperio/Empire (Monte Carmelo, 2008), and Diorama (Phoneme Books, EUA, 2013; translated by Anna Rosenwong, winner of the Best Translated Book Award 2015 from Rochester University). Her work has been awarded the  Gilberto Owen National Literature Prize for Poetry and she is part of the National System of Art Creators of Mexico. Cerón was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2023 and received the Michael Rothenberg International Poets Grant in the same year. She has released three sound poetry albums, Sonic bubbles, Miiuni, and Speculari, and her sound, visual, and performance poetry pieces have been exhibited in international venues and museums including the Southbank Centre, London and the Museum of Modern Art, Mexico. Julio Ortega, one of Latin America’s most acclaimed literary critics, chose her as one of the best women poets of her generation.

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