Draft:Aura María Vidales Ibarra

= Aura María Vidales Ibarra =

Aura María Vidales Ibarra is a Mexican poet and journalist born on July 11, 1958, in Mexico City. She holds a degree in Journalism from the Carlos Septién García School of Journalism. She is the mother of Aura E. Guerrero and Pedro Salvador Guerrero.



Journalism
Aura María Vidales Ibarra has a rich background in journalism. , having worked as a reporter for Canal Once, and Canal Judicial of the Mexican Supreme Court, the Communication Department of the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) and El Universal, among others. Throughout her journalistic career, Aura María Vidales Ibarra has contributed to numerous publications, including Diario de México, El Financiero, El Sol de México, El Universal, and La Jornada.

Poetry
Aura María Vidales Ibarra started writing and publishing as a teenager. She has published nine poetry books and several poetic anthologies. She received a poetry scholarship from the National Fund for Culture and Arts (FONCA) in 1990. In 1997, she was a fellow of the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa, United States. She was honored with the 1991 award from the Spanish Circle of Orange County and the Literary Society of Los Angeles, California, in 1990. Thanks to her journalistic background she is one of the leading experts of relevant Latin-American poets, such as Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and Salomón de la Selva, her maternal uncle.

Aura María Vidales Ibarra is a member of the Sociedad General de Escritores de México (Mexican General Society of Authors) and holds a position in the Extraordinary Octavio Paz Chair of the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Her poems have gained international acclaim, with translations into English and German, and have been published in various journals and anthologies in the United States, Mexico and Austria

Poetry books

 * Poesía: Ensueño, e.a., 1979.
 * Estalactitas, El Bachiller Andante, Marginal, 1984.
 * Ventanas vacías, Gob. del Edo. de Querétaro, Nueva Literatura, 1989.
 * Cantos (para el guerrero), INBA-CNIPL, 1995.
 * Arcoíris de versos y derechos humanos, Comisión de Derechos Humanos del Distrito Federal, 1997.
 * Caídas de agua larga, Ediciones Sin Nombre, 2010.
 * Celda y señora del canto: Ciudad de México, Ediciones del Ermitaño, 2014.

Poetry Anthologies

 * Caligrafía de Ariadna (colectivo), UNAM/CREA, 1987.