Pura López Colomé

At the age of twelve, after the loss of her mother, she was sent to a Catholic boarding school run by Benedictine nuns located in South Dakota, United States.

In boarding school, she wrote her first poems and translated Emily Dickinson, W. B. Yeats, and Patrick Kavanagh.

She also served as secretary of the editorial staff of the Saturday supplement of the Unomásuno newspaper for several years, under the direction of Huberto Batis.

[4] Teachers like Huberto Batis, Antonio Alatorre, Salvador Elizondo, César Rodríguez Chicharro, and Ernesto Mejía Sánchez, motivated her not to change direction.

In 1992, she won the National Poetry Translation Prize for Isla de las estaciones, by Seamus Heaney.