Laura Rosal ©
Ruth Llana is a Spanish poet. She has published four poetry collections, tiembla (Point de Lunettes; Federico García Lorca University of Granada Poetry Prize, 2013) in 2014; the artisanal chapbook estructuras (Ejemplar Único) in 2015, in collaboration with artist Gabriel Viñals; umbral (Malasangre) in 2017; and La primavera del saguaro (Ultramarinos) in 2021. She translated to Spanish Mei-mei Berssenbrugge’s poetry collection I Love Artists: New and Selected Poems (Kriller 71, 2019) and Muriel Rukeyser’s U.S. 1 (Ultramarinos, 2022). With Jesse Lee Kercheval, she has translated to English Para las focas / For the Seals, a chapbook by Uruguayan poet Juan Manuel Sánchez (Toad Press, 2019). Her work has appeared in magazines such as Shangrila, El Cuaderno, and Revista Kokoro, among other publications, and has been translated into English and Portuguese. She collaborates as a columnist for the culture supplement at La nueva España. Ruth holds a doctorate in Latin American Literatures & Cultures with emphasis on visual cultures, gender, sexualities, and disability studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Ruth lives and writes between the US Midwest and Northern Spain with her partner and their two dogs. Her cat’s name is Nannook.
Ruth lives and writes between the US Midwest and Northern Spain with her partner and their two dogs. Her cat’s name is Nannook.