Born in Mexico City in 1955, of Bulgarian Sephardic descent, Myriam Moscona is a poet and journalist. Moscona is the author of nine books, including Vísperas (Fondo de Cultura Económica, México, 1996), El que nada (ERA, México, 2006) and De par en par (Bonobos, México, 2009), which explores poetry beyond its traditional construction. Her book De frente with de perfil (DDF, México, 1996), features literary portraits of 75 Mexican poets, with photographs by Rogelio Cuéllar. Tela de sevoya (Random House Mondadori, 2012) is a hybrid narrative that weaves together memory and fiction; the backdrop to the book is Moscona’s family language, Ladino, or Judeo-Spanish.

Her book-length sequence Ivory Black (Negro marfil), translated from the Spanish by Jen Hofer, received the 2012 Harold Morton Landon Award from the Academy of American Poets. When Negro marfil was conceived, Moscona focused on the use of visual materials (inks, pastels, graphite, and acrylics), which led her to explore visual poetry. In this domain, she is the maker of a variety of art objects and artist books, some of which are part of the Special Collections and Archives of the University of California at Irvine.