Ana Merino

Ana Merino

Ana Merino (born 1971) is a Spanish poet.

Biography

Ana Merino was born in Madrid in 1971, daughter of José María Merino. Ana Merino was between 2004 and 2009 an Assistant Professor of Spanish at Dartmouth College.[1] She is a Professor of Spanish Creative Writing and Cultural Studies at The University of Iowa where she is the director of their MFA in Spanish Creative Writing. She has published a scholarly book on comics titled El Comic Hispánico (Cátedra, 2003) a critical monograph on Chris Ware (Sinsentido 2005), a youth novel "El hombre de los dos corazones" (Anaya, 2009) and nine 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.

Between 2004 and 2014 Merino was a member of the Board of Directors for the Center for Cartoon Studies and between 2001 and 2011 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). Ana Merino currently lives in Iowa City.

Works

Poetry

Plays

Book in Spanish by Reino de Cordelia (2013; 2 Edic 2014) publisher:http://www.reinodecordelia.es/libro.php?id=124 trailer; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwgwyO-0smE

Short Theater in collections

Fiction

Short stories in collections

Poems in collections

References

  1. "Ana Merino - Dartmouth Faculty Website". Dartmouth College. Retrieved 23 January 2010.

External links

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