Before

• Lives in New York, teaches at City College of New York, very active in the New York literary scene
• Before won the Xavier Villaurrutia Prize, the most prestigious prize given for a single novel in Mexico
• Boullosa has been awarded numerous prizes around the world, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Liberaturpreis of Frankfurt, the Anna Seghers, and the Café Gijón Prizes
• Longtime host of the TV show, Nueva York, at CUNY-TV, that explores the rich textures of the Hispanic cultural life in that city, for which she has won five NY-EMMYS
• Her work is taught in numerous university courses throughout North America