She is an American feminist poet, essayist, oral historian, and photographer. After finishing his high school studies in Albuquerque, New Mexico, he took his first steps as a poet in New York, where he remained for three years. There he met and became friends with some painters of Abstract Expressionism, the poets of Black Mountain College and the Beat Generation. He also worked in the aid offices for Spanish refugees.

At the end of 1961, he arrived in Mexico City where he married the poet Sergio Mondragón, for which he acquired Mexican nationality. In early 1962 both founded and directed the bilingual poetry magazine El Corno Emplumado / The Plumed Horn. That project remained stable until July 1968, when the publishers proclaimed themselves in favor of the Mexican student movement. From that moment on, she was persecuted and harassed until in 1969 she left the country and went into exile in Cuba. He remained there during the 1970s and worked at the Book Institute, as well as at various publishing institutions. Later he lived in Managua, Nicaragua, to experience the Sandinista Revolution up close. From his years in Cuba and Nicaragua he learned the importance of oral history, especially that which was done by and for women. When she returned to the United States in 1984, she was deported and accused of being "" communist "", which is why she was denied entry to her native country. After a series of trials, he managed to win against the State and regained his nationality. Since then, he lives in Albuquerque but gives numerous classes and lectures at different universities in America, especially in the United States and Cuba.