MB Agencia Literaria

Ana Merino has published five books of poetry Preparativos para un viaje (Rialp, 1995) winner of the 1994 Adonais Award, Los días gemelos (Visor, 1997), La voz de los relojes (Visor, 2000), Juegos de niños (Visor, 2003) winner of the  Fray Luis de León Award, and Compañera de celda (Visor, 2006), translated into English as Cell Mate (Harbor Mountain Press, 2007). An anthology of her poetry has been translated into German and published by Teamart Verlag (Zurich, 2009). She is also the author of a novel for young readers, El hombre de los dos corazones (Anaya, 2009). Her poems have been included in more than twenty collections, some of them translated into Portuguese, Slovenian, French, Dutch, Bulgarian or Italian. Merino also writes about Comics and Graphic Novels Criticism: El comic hispánico (Cátedra, 2003) and Chris Ware, la secuencia circular (Sinsentido, 2005). She was awarded the Diario de Avisos Award for best critical short articles about comics for the Spanish literary magazine Leer. Ana Merino is an Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese at the University of Iowa, specializing in Creative Writing. She is a member of the executive committee for the International Comics Art Forum (ICAF) and a Director Board for the Center for Cartoon Studies. She has served as curator for three comics exhibitions.