Natalia Toledo

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Natalia Toledo was born in a neighborhood of fishermen in Juchitán, Oaxaca, Mexico. Her bilingual poetry anthology Guie’ yaase’ / Olivo negro won the National Indigenous Language Prize in 2004. Her poems and stories have been translated to languages as varied as French, Punjab, and Euskera.

Carapace Dancer: Spanish and Didxazá (Isthmus Zapotec) Poems by Natalia Toledo

Natalia Toledo
Dallas. Phoneme Media. 2025. 162 pages.In its trilingual presentation, Mexican author Natalia Toledo’s Carapace Dancer (El dorso del cangrejo / Deche bitoope…
The Story of Shit

September 2023
Natalia Toledo
Author’s note: I wrote this story because I yearn for the days that the wind has swept away. In the neighborhood of fishermen where I was born, we kids didn’t have a bathroom. Only adults had…
Two Poems

January 2011
Natalia Toledo
Bidaani’Ruyadxie’ lii sica ruyadxi guragu’ guibá’,ribaque chaahue’ lii ndaani’ guiña candanaxhi guiriziñaguidilade’ ruxhele guirá guie’ bizeecabe lu xpidaane’ guirá nguiiu ne biu…
January 2012
Irma Pineda, Natalia Toledo, Victor Terán
Irma Pineda "You Will Not See Me Die" Natalia Toledo "The Weaver" "For T.S. Eliot" Victor Terán "I Know Your Body"