Elva Macías Grajales (Villaflores, Chiapas, January 10, 1944) is a Mexican poet, writer and essayist.
[1] Elva Macías was born on January 10, 1944, in Villaflores, where she lived until she was twelve years old, at which time she went to study in Mexico City.
[2] In 1963 Macías escaped to China with Eraclio Zepeda, her husband.
Macías and Zepeda spent two years in China during which she worked as a Spanish teacher.
Macías has been: cultural diffuser of the UNAM where she held the sub-directorate of Casa del Lago and INBA in Chiapas, director of Museo del Chopo, publisher of the Voz Viva record series in Mexico and Voz Viva in Latin America, member of the advisory board of the literary magazines; Plural and Literary Discourse, Journal of the University of Memphis and ICACH Magazine.