For this submission, I want to nominate the poet, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, especially for her poem, You Men (link here: https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/you-men/ )
Biography: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, original name Juana Ramírez de Asbaje, (born November 12, 1651?, San Miguel Nepantla, Viceroyalty of New Spain [now in Mexico]—died April 17, 1695, Mexico City), poet, dramatist, scholar, and nun, an outstanding writer of the Latin American colonial period and of the Hispanic Baroque. Her story and accomplishments, however, have helped her live on. She now stands as a national icon of Mexico and Mexican identity; her former cloister is a center for higher education, and her image adorns Mexican currency. Because of rising interest in feminism and women’s writing, Sor Juana came to new prominence in the late 20th century as the first published feminist of the New World and as the most outstanding writer of the Spanish American colonial period. A woman of genius who, to paraphrase Virginia Woolf’s famous recommendation for the female author, succeeded under hostile circumstances in creating a “room of her own,” Sor Juana remains avidly read and deeply meaningful to the present day.
For a more complete biography and further information, please visit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juana_In%C3%A9s_de_la_Cruz
For a more complete reading, visit this site: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sor-Juana-Ines-de-la-Cruz
Bibliography of work:
Here's some cool stuff I found in EBSCOhost via umd libraries: I just used her name as the search term and in the next open box I inputted 'english' and in the type box selected language of publication because unfortunately I don't speak Spanish.
Wassner, Dalia. “The Salience and Pervasiveness of the Literary Figure of the Jew in Latin America: From Sor Juana Inés de La Cruz to Jorge Luis Borges.” Latin American Research Review, vol. 54, no. 2, Apr. 2019, pp. 398–412. EBSCOhost, doi:10.25222/larr.676.