Poet, essayist, journalist and translator. National Prize of Literature in 2001. Full Member of the Cuban Academy of Language from 1999, and runs this institution from 2012. Member of the Cuban Academy of Sciences from 1991. Member of UNEAC. Member of the Jury of the Caribbean Carbet Prize since its foundation in 1990. Author, among others, of the books October essential (1982), Nation and miscegenation in Nicolás Guillén (1982), Granada notebook (1984), Foundation of the image (1988), Praise and landscape (1997), Poetics of the altars (2004), Wild coals (2005), Fast rope (2005), Poetic Anthology (1962-2000 and 2006), and The golden chair (2014). She has won the awards Mirta Aguirre (1983), UNEAC (1980), Rafael Alberti (2007) and three times the Literary Criticism (1986, 1997 and 2000). Part of her poetic work has been translated into more than ten languages, and has been included in Cuban and foreign anthologies.