The Women of Mexico's Cultural Renaissance Intrepid Post-Revolution Artists and Writers

Elizabeth Coonrod 
Martínez
 was Professor at DePaul University, USA, 2010 to 2020, and at Sonoma State University, USA, 1995 to 2010. Her recent books include 
Teaching Late Twentieth Century Mexicana and Chicana Writers
 (2021), 
Josefina Niggli, Mexican American Writer: A Critical Biography
 (2007), and 
Lilus Kikus and Other Stories by Elena Poniatowska
, translation and introduction (2005). She was Editor of the academic journal 
Diálogo, an Interdisciplinary Studies journal
 from 2010 to 2020.

Elena Poniatowska 
is one of the most powerful and important voices of Spanish American literature and journalism.
 
Her chosen genre is literary journalism, much of which is collected in the 7 volume 
Todo México
 (1991-1999). Her prolific career has won her many awards including the Mazatlán Prize twice for 
Hasta no verte Jesús mío
 (1970) and 
Tinísima
 (1992), the Alfaguara Prize for 
La piel del cielo
 (2007), and the Cervantes Prize for Literature in 2013.