Carmen Villoro

{{short description|Mexican psychologist and psychoanalyst (born 1958)}}

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| name = Carmen Villoro

| image = Carmen Villoro chez O Patro Výš.jpg

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| caption = Carmen Villoro photographed in Montréal, Québec, Canada at O Patro Výš.

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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1958|10|24|df=y}}

| birth_place = Mexico City, Mexico

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| relatives = Luis Villoro (father)
Juan Villoro (brother)[https://zonaoctaviopaz.com/detalle_conversacion/727/en-la-mirada-de-la-familia-villoro En la mirada de la familia Villoro]. zonaoctaviopaz.com

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| occupation = psychologist
psychoanalyst
writer
journalist

| years_active = 1960s-present

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Carmen Villoro (born 24 October 1958) is a Mexican psychologist and psychoanalyst who also writes poetry, children's stories and has contributed to several newspapers. She is the director of the magazine Tragaluz and has won several awards for her publications.

==Biography==

Carmen Villoro was born on 24 October 1958 in Mexico City and currently resides in Guadalajara. She studied psychology at the Universidad Iberoamericana{{cite web|title=Carmen Villoro|url=http://www.elem.mx/autor/datos/2024|website=Enciclopedia de la Literatura en México|publisher=CONACULTA|accessdate=30 July 2015|location=Mexico City, Mexico|language=Spanish|date=2012}} and works as both a psychologist and psychoanalyst.{{cite news|title=En voz de Carmen Villoro|url=http://descargacultura.unam.mx/app1?sharedItem=54324|accessdate=30 July 2015|publisher=Descarga Cultura UNMA|date=27 July 2015|location=Mexico City, Mexico|language=Spanish}}

She has been the coordinator of several poetry and story workshops including Juan Banuelos (1975), Raul Renan (1984) and Vicente Quirarte (1990). In addition to her other writing, she had been a correspondent for local newspapers including Acento, La Voz de Michoacán, Público de Jalisco and Siglo 21 and she has served as director of the cultural magazine Tragaluz. She published her first poems in 1986 and her work has been included in anthologies published in Colombia, Italy, Mexico, Paraguay, Spain, the USA and Venezuela.