Mónica de la Torre

Mónica de la Torre is the author of seven books of poetry, of which the most recent is Pause the Document (2025). Others include Repetition Nineteen (2020), which centers on experimental translation and The Happy End/All Welcome (2017), a riff on a riff on Kafka’s Amerika. Among her books written in Spanish and published in her native Mexico City are Acúfenos (2007) and Taller de Taquimecanografía (2011), written with the eponymous artists’ collective she co-founded. Her coedited anthologies include Women in Concrete Poetry 1959–79 (2020), and Reversible Monuments: Contemporary Mexican Poetry (2002). She teaches poetry and translation at Brooklyn College’s Creative Writing M.F.A. program.