Susana Chávez

About

Mexican poet and women's rights activist of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. She was best known for her activism, which aimed to stop the murders of large numbers of women in Juarez, Mexico.

Before Fame

She began attending Mexican literary festivals at age eleven. She later studied psychology at the Universidad Autonoma de Ciudad Juarez.

Trivia

Tragically, she was strangled in Juarez at the age of thirty-six.

Family Life

She was born into a family in the Colonia Cuauhtemoc district of Ciudad Juarez.

Associated With

Both she and fellow Mexican-born poet Alurista worked as activists.