Yelizta Ruíz, a poet from Guerrero, won the XVII Ignacio Manuel Altamirano National Poetry Prize 2022 for her work "Variación de la Escama." Regarding her award-winning work, Yelitza Ruíz defines Variación de la escama as a collection of poems where the sea is seen from a woman's perspective, where it speaks of the lineage of water in women and the myth of mermaids. The young 35-year-old lawyer also studied a Master's degree in Art and Literature Studies. She has published works such as Abril en Casa (Mirando la cuesta, 2011), Cartografía del tren (BUAP, 2018), Hilo negro. Mujeres y revolución en el Partido Liberal México (Brigada para leer en Libertad, 2020), Lengua madre (UNAM, 2020), and she already has her next book publication ready: Coyote, which will be released in 2023 by Editorial Posdata and the UANL. The prolific writer and poet was a beneficiary of FONCA's Young Creators Program in 2013-2014 and 2017-2018. In 2012, she won the Young Literature Award in the Literary Essay category and the María Luisa Ocampo Poetry Award, as well as the Youth Merit Award in the artistic activities category in 2013.