Had an affair with Adolfo Bioy Casares which was made fiction in the novel
'Testimonios sobre Mariana'.
Recipient of the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize.
Spanish father and a Mexican mother.
Third of five children.
Studied literature, choreography and theater in the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City, where she was an active member of Julio Bracho's theatre group.