Mikeas Snchez

Mikeas Snchez is the author of How to Be a Good Savage and Other Poems. She is one of the most important pots of the Indigenous Americas, working in Zoque, a language spoken in southern Mexico. She is the only woman to have ever published a book of poetry in that language. Her six volumes of poetry-including Mokaya / Mojk'Jy and Mumure' t' yjktamb / Todos somos cimarrones-are all bilingual Spanish-Zoque. Snchez's work has been translated into Bangla, Catalan, English, German, Italian, Maya, Mixe, and Portuguese. In Chiapas, Mexico, she was awarded first place in the "Y el Bolm dice . . ." Prize for Fiction as well as the Pat O'tan Prize for Indigenous Poetry. Snchez is a radio producer, translator, community health promoter, and defender of Zoque lands. She lives in Ajway, Chiapas.