Celerina Sánchez Santiago was born on February 3, 1967, in Mesón de Guadalupe, San Juan Mixtepec, Santiago Juxtlahuaca District, Oaxaca. She is a poet, storyteller, and translator in the Tu'un Savi language. She earned a bachelor's degree in Linguistics from the National Institute of Linguistics (ENAH).

In 2003, she participated in the first meeting to analyze the Mixtec language and propose its recovery, dissemination, and implementation in schools at the Technological University of the Mixteca, in Huajuapan de León, Oaxaca. From 2004 to 2007, she hosted the program Perfiles indígenas (Indigenous Profiles) on Radio Ciudadana. She has participated in poetry gatherings and festivals such as the gathering of Indigenous Women in Art, Dreams, and Realities in Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Hermosillo, Guadalajara, and Veracruz, and in the Second International Congress of Languages ​​at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 2007. at the Chicanas and Indigenous Women's Testimonies Festival at the University of San Antonio, Texas in 2012; the Carlos Montemayor Languages ​​of the Americas Festival 2012 held in Mexico City in 2012; and the First World Poetry Gathering of Indigenous Peoples, Voices of Color for Mother Earth, 2016, among others. FONCA Fellow (2005). National System of Art Creators (2015-2017). First Place in the "5th Poetry Gathering of Indigenous Languages." Recognition of Merit for outstanding work in the preservation and strengthening of the native languages ​​of the state of Oaxaca, by the 64th Legislature of the Honorable Congress of the State of Oaxaca, within the framework of the International Year of Indigenous Languages, 2019. Martha Sánchez Néstor National Award for the Promotion of the Rights of Indigenous Women, 2022.