Lauren Mendinueta was born in Barranquilla, Colombia in 1977. She began writing in 1998 while working as a librarian in Fundación, a small village in Colombia. She has published ten books of poetry and a biography of Marie Curie. She has won four national literature awards in Colombia and two international poetry awards in Spain. Mendinueta currently lives in Portugal. The poet Jon Juaristi wrote about her poetry: “Lauren Mendinueta is one of the more individualized voices of her generation. Hers is an extraordinarily mature voice, in control of its resources, which has succeeded in building a tradition to suit it without being seduced by it, through what should be the project of any true poet: the creation of a character endowed with a moral self. In the work of this young Latin American writer, there are hints as to who will be the best lyricist of the century, and in whom poetry now renews its ancestral force.” © Jon Juaristi (Translated by Constance Lardas)