Rosario Castellanos Figueroa was a famous poet of Mexico and one of Mexico’s most important voices that spoke up for minorities. She was born in the southern state of Chiapas, Mexico on May 25, 1925 and lived on a farm for most of her childhood. She saw a different side of the Chiapan natives and saw how poorly they were treated when colonization started in Mexico. This contributed to the spark of writing. During her adolescent years, the government took her farm and she was forced to move to Mexico City. Her parents both died when she was fifteen and she had to fend for herself after that. She ended up connecting to intellectuals around her and began writing. She became a professor later at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. During her teaching years, she married another professor and had a child, a son, with him. There were multiple bumps in their marriage which led to divorce. Her writing was recognized by Mexico and the government appointed her ambassador to Israel. She died in Tel Aviv due to an electrical accident when she was 49, but it is rumored that she committed suicide. Some of her works include The Book of Lamentations, which describes the culture of the Tzotzil people indigenous to central Chiapas, Ciudad Real, The Woman Who Knows Latin, and Poesía no eres tú. Her writing expressed the voice of others like indigenous dying cultures and women of Mexico.