Sofía del Carmen Rodríguez Fernández – Biography

Social anthropologist, poet and painter born in Mexico City. Poetry and Paint meet in her work, in parallel journeys of sorts with common grounds.

Among her publications are: Carpinteria Dramática (Dramatic Carpentry) (Theatre, coauthor). Prologue by Emilio Carballido. UAM Iztapalapa 1980; Ángel Fragmentado (Fragmented Angel) (Poetry) Ed. Fuera de Comercio, CONACULTA 1999; Última concentración lírica (Last Lyric Concentration) (With Francisco Cervantes), Querétaro State Goverment 2002; Poemas al viento (Poems to the Wind) Anthology (Poetry), La cabra ediciones 2008; Los poemas de la poesía (The Poems of Poetry), Ed. Praxis, Mexico City 2012; Flores en el desierto (Flowers in the Desert ). Iberoamerican poetry against femicide, Ed. Cascada de Palabras, Mexico City 2016. Amber, Tributo poético a las madres de niñas y mujeres desaparecidas (Amber. Poetic tribute to the mothers of missing girls and women), Ed. Cascada de Palabras  2018; Materia del Origen (Poesía y pintura) (Substance of Origin) (Poetry and paint), Primero Sueño Editora, Guadalajara Jalisco 2023.

In 2001 she received a scholarship for Literature Creators, from the State Council for Culture and Arts in México, with which she wrote the poetry book Primera Forma (First Form), Prologue by Hugo Gutiérrez Vega, Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro, 2004, a project in which poetry converses with painting in the territory of form.
She has collaborated with several periodicals like La Jornada Semanal and Alforja de Poesía. She gave poetry classes in the writers school SOGEM in Querétaro.

She has illustrated books and magazines, among the most recent: Frontera de mi cuerpo al mar and other watercolor series: complete ilustration, no. 9 of the review Ficción La Revista, Medellín, Colombia, october 2020. Her poem: Día 23 appeared with her watercolors in the magazine Atribune June 2020, Italia, translation: Merceder Auteri.

She colaborated with Jordi Boldó, painting a 10 x 20 meter curtain for the Guillermina Bravo National Ballet of Contemporary Dance in Querétaro. It premiered with the choreography “Carmina Burana” in July 2001 at the Josefa Ortiz de Domínguez Auditorium in Querétaro, Mexico and at the Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City.

She has participated in national and international exhibitions, collectively and individually.

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