 Her writing is characteristic of the Academia Antártica, a society of poets in Lima who shared and discussed literary texts.She may herself have been a member of this society.In 1608, "Discourse in Praise of Poetry" ("Discurso en loor de la poesía") was published in the prologue to a new Spanish translation of Ovid's "Heroides" by the poet Diego Mexía de Fernangil.