poet

Yolanda Segura

yolanda segura (Querétaro, 1989) is a lesbian-queer transfeminist writer. She has published four books of poetry, among them “serie de circunstancias posibles en torno a una mujer mexicana de clase trabajadora “(Almadía 2021)  “per/so/na” (Almadía, 2019) and “estancias que por ahora tienen luz y se abren hacia el paisaje” (Palíndroma, 2021). She won the Premio Nacional de Poesía Carmen Alardín 2018 and the Premio Nacional de Poesía Joven Francisco Cervantes 2017. Her poems, reviews and essays have been published in various magazines and anthologies. She works in series development and screenwriting.  She completed her Master’s and Ph.D. studies in Literature (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) and the Seminar of Photographic Production 2017 at Centro de la Imagen. She studied screenwriting at the Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica. She lives in Mexico City.