Rossy Evelin Lima (August 18, 1986 Veracruz Mexico), holds a PhD in linguistics and is an international award-winning poet. Her work has been published in numerous journals, magazines and anthologies in Spain, Italy, UK, Canada, United States, Mexico, Venezuela, Chile, Colombia and Argentina. She received the Poet of the Year Award by The Americas Poetry Festival of New York (NY, 2018), the Premio Internazionale di Poesia La Finestra Eterea award (Milan, Italy, 2017), the International Latino Book Award (USA, 2016), the Premio Orgullo Fronterizo Mexicano award by the Institute of Mexicans Abroad (USA, 2016), the Premio Internazionale di Poesia Altino award (Venice, Italy, 2015), and the National Gabriela Mistral Award by the National Hispanic Honor Society (USA, 2010), among others. She is the president and founder of the Latin American Foundation for the Arts, the founder of the International Latin American Poetry Festival (FeIPoL), as well as the founder of Jade Publishing. In 2015 and was invited to speak at TEDxMcallen to talk about her experience as an immigrant writer in the U.S.

Rossy Evelin Lima (Veracruz, Mexico, 18 de agosto de 1986), es doctora en lingüistica y poeta galardonada internacionalmente. Su trabajo ha sido publicado en numerosos artículos literarios, periódicos, revistas y antologías en España, Italia, Canadá, Estados Unidos, el Reino Unido, México, Venezuela, Chile, Colombia y Argentina. Recibió el premio de Poeta del año por The Americas Poetry Festival of New York (NY, 2018), el Premio Internazionale di Poesia La Finestra Eterea (Milan, Italia, 2017), el International Latino Book Award (EEUU, 2016), el Premio Orgullo Fronterizo Mexicano por el Instituto de Mexicanos en el Exterior (EEUU, 2016), el Premio Internazionale di Poesia Altino (Venecia, Italia, 2015), y el Premio Nacional Gabriela Mistral por la Sociedad Honorífica Hispanica (EEUU, 2010), entre otros. Es la presidente y fundadora de Latin American Foundation for the Arts, la fundadora del Festival Internacional de Poesía Latinoamericana (FeIPoL), y fundadora de la editorial Jade Publishing. En el 2015 fue invitada a TEDxMcAllen donde expuso sobre su experiencia como escritora inmigrante en los Estados Unidos.

​Undocumented Story

For the first time, on October 2015, Rossy Evelin Lima decides to openly speak about her situation as an undocumented immigrant in the United States in her TEDXMcAllen appearance titled: Undocumented Dream.