Elisa Ramírez Castañeda was born in Mexico City in 1947. Was a poet, sociologist, translator and researcher in the field. Between 1972 and 1979 he was founder and chairman of the board of the Casa de la Cultura del Istmo in Juchitan, Oaxaca. There he collaborated actively in the formation of collections, exhibitions, courses, workshops, research and outreach activities. Between 1980 and 1984 he was coordinator of the Indigenous Oral Tradition publishing project of the Department of Indigenous Education and Publications Division of the Ministry of Education. Between 1989 and 1994 she coordinated collections of poetry and bilingual editions Toledo. Was a fellow of the Fund for Culture Cultural Bancomer Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, FONCA for translation in 1993. Between 1996 and 2000 he served as project coordinator Francisco Toledo Catalogue Raisonné of the INBA. In 1997 the documentary works and performs research for the exhibition After a cup of coffee in the Museum of Popular Culture. He has published works of poetry Words, You want me to tell you again?, A passion dominates me, and also in San Juan makes air. His work as a researcher and sociologist is also manifested in other publications such as the Anthology of ancient Indian texts, colonial and contemporary indigenous concerning iguanas, Revelations montiocs, oral tradition huaves San Mateo, The Indigenous Education in Mexico and Forty days that shook the isthmus. Hemerography, documents and testimony of chegomista movement. Juchitán, 1911 among others. Between 1984 and 2000 he worked at Time, Child Culture Roots and Wings and CNCA as advisor to the program and author of children's activities in the newspaper Time Kids. He has written and collaborated on a number of children's books that rescues the indigenous oral tradition, most notably Makers of Words. In 2002 he was Netzahualcóyotl Jury Prize Writers in Indigenous Languages​​. He currently serves as managing editor of The Comején Bulletin Interlibrary Oaxaca state.