Our guest: Judith Santopietro: “You can rebuild yourself through writing”

Born in the Mexican state of Veracruz, the poet Judith Santopietro now lives between her homeland and the United States. The experience of migration, a core element in her personal history, is central to her work. It is also key to the writing workshops she runs for migrant women living in the United States. Written in Spanish, her mother tongue, her texts borrow from Nahuatl, Quechua and Aymara, not only in sound but also in their vision of the world. She has published Palabras de Agua (2010) [Words of Water] and Tiawanaku. Poemas de la madre Coqa [Tiawanaku. Poems from the Mother Coqa] (2019).