María Ángeles Pérez López

María Ángeles Pérez López (Valladolid, Spain, 1967) is a poet and professor of Contemporary Spanish Poetry and Hispano-American Literature at the University of Salamanca. She has published various award-winning books, including Fiebre y compasión de los metales (Fever and Compassion of Metals, Vaso Roto, 2016). Her book Incendio mineral (Mineral Fire, Vaso Roto, 2021) was awarded the Premio Nacional de la Crítica in 2022. Collections of her work have been published in Caracas, Mexico City, Quito, New York, Monterrey, Bogota, and Lima, and bilingually in Italy and Portugal. Her book Carnalidad del frío/Carnality of Cold (Premio Ciudad de Badajoz) has been published bilingually in Brazil and the United States and her Libro Mediterráneo de los muertos (Mediterranean Book of the Dead, Pre-Textos, 2023) won the Premio Margarita Hierro de Poesía. She is a member of the North American Academy of the Spanish Language, an adoptive daughter of Fontiveros, birthplace of Saint John of the Cross, and a member of the Academy of Troubadours of Fontiveros.