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Irma Torregrosa

Irma Torregrosa holds a degree in Social Communication from the Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán. She participated in the Fundación para las Letras Mexicanas (Foundation for Mexican Letters) in 2011, 2012, and 2015. She is the author of Piélago (Pelagic zone; Cuadrivio Ediciones, 2020, and Esdrújula, 2026), which won the Premio Hispanoamericano de Poesía San Román (San Román Hispano-American Poetry Prize) and Lugar de taxidermia (The place of taxidermy; Esdrújula, 2024). In 2020, she was awarded the Premio Estatal “Tiempos de Escritura” in the poetry category from Yucatán’s Secretary of Culture and the Arts. She is currently the recipient of a grant from the same Mexcian state’s Secretary of Culture and the Arts Programa de Estímulos a la Creación y Desarrollo Artístico (Program of Incentives for Artistic Creation and Development; PECDA).