Juana Ines de la Cruz, WAH nuh ee NAYS day lah KROOS (1651-1695), was the greatest poet of the Baroque movement in colonial Latin American literature. She was born on Nov. 12, 1651, near Mexico City with the given and family name of Juana Ines de Asbaje y Ramirez. She became a nun in 1667 and took her religious name. She is often called Sor (Sister) Juana. She entered a convent in Mexico City in 1669 and lived there the rest of her life.