Poetry. Translated from the Spanish by Elizabeth Polli. "Ana Merino is one of the best contemporary Spanish poets, and CELL MATE is a wonderful place to start reading her. In these poems all of Ana's registers are present: the whimsical one some times, others the haunted one. Ana writes dark lullabies, fairy tales for grown ups, and she does it without losing the sense of childish wonder. How is that possible? Open the book"—Edmundo Paz-Soldan.

Author City: Hanover, NH USA

Ana Merino was born in Madrid in 1971, daughter of Jose Maria Merino and married to artist Felix de la Concha. Ana Merino is assistant professor at Dartmouth College. She has published a scholarly book on comics titled El Comic Hispanico (Cátedra, 2003) a critical monograph on Chris Ware (Sinsentido, 2005) and five books of poetry, and was a recipient of the Adonais and Fray Luis de Leon awards for poetry. She was awarded the Diario de Avisos Award for best critical short articles about comics for the Spanish literary magazine Leer. Merino is a member of the Board of Directors for the Center for Cartoon Studies and a member of the executive committee of International Comic Art Forum. Merino's articles on comics have appeared in Leer, DDLV, The Comics Journal, International Journal of Comic Art, and Hispanic Issues. She has served as curator for three comics exhibitions and is the author of the bilingual catalogue Fantagraphics creadores del canon (2003).