Alfonsina Storni was born in Sala Capriasca, Switzerland and moved to Argentina at the age of four. She worked in a factory before becoming an actress, then a teacher, and finally an office worker 
and writer. She published her first book of poetry, La inquietud del rosal, in 1916. She subsequently published El dulce daño (1918), Irremediablemente (1919), Languidez (1920), Ocre (1925), Mundo de siete pozos (1934), and Mascarilla y trébol (1938). A single mother and an intelligent woman, Storni often felt held back by a society where intellectual pursuits were considered the realm of men. She famously described herself as superior al término medio de los hombres que me rodean; "superior to most of the men who surround me". In many of her poems and in articles she wrote during the 20s, she is highly critical of society's treatment of women. She also struggled with a depression that often comes through in her poetry, and in 1938, having been diagnosed with cancer, she took her life in the seaside city of Mar del Plata by walking out into the ocean.
and writer. She published her first book of poetry, La inquietud del rosal, in 1916. She subsequently published El dulce daño (1918), Irremediablemente (1919), Languidez (1920), Ocre (1925), Mundo de siete pozos (1934), and Mascarilla y trébol (1938). A single mother and an intelligent woman, Storni often felt held back by a society where intellectual pursuits were considered the realm of men. She famously described herself as superior al término medio de los hombres que me rodean; "superior to most of the men who surround me". In many of her poems and in articles she wrote during the 20s, she is highly critical of society's treatment of women. She also struggled with a depression that often comes through in her poetry, and in 1938, having been diagnosed with cancer, she took her life in the seaside city of Mar del Plata by walking out into the ocean.
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