Ivonne Bordelois is a poet and essayist. She earned her doctorate in linguistics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with Noam Chomsky and held a professorship at the University of Utrecht (Netherlands). She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1983. She has written several books, including The Joyful Apocalypse (1995), Pizarnik Correspondence (1998), and A Crucial Triangle: Borges, Lugones, and Güiraldes (1999, Second Municipal Essay Prize 2003). Her publications, with Libros del Zorzal, include The Threatened Word (2003), Etymology of Passions (2005), Listening to the Body (2009), and Of Silence as a Future (2010). She won the 2005 Nación-Sudamericana Prize for her essay The Country That Speaks to Us.