Laura Rosal ©
Ruth Llana is a Spanish poet. She is the author of four poetry collections: tiembla (Point de Lunettes, 2014; Federico García Lorca University of Granada Poetry Prize, 2013); the artisanal chapbook estructuras (Ejemplar Único, 2015), in collaboration with artist Gabriel Viñals; umbral (Malasangre, 2017); and La primavera del saguaro (Ultramarinos, 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 poetry and non-fiction work has appeared in anthologies and magazines from Latin America, Europe, and the US such as Candela Review, 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. Since 2015, she has been curating a visual essay on Instagram where she documents and explores themes of place and belonging through photography.
Ruth lives and writes between the Midwest and Northern Spain with her partner and their two dogs. Her cat’s name is Nanook.
Ruth lives and writes between the Midwest and Northern Spain with her partner and their two dogs. Her cat’s name is Nanook.