Biographical note

Poet, essayist, editor and curator, Yolanda Castano is director of the International Writer's residence, Residencia Literaria 1863, in A Coruna, Galicia. She has published seven poetry collections in Galician and Spanish and her poems have been translated into more than thirty-five languages. Winner of the National Critics Award, the Espiral Maior Poetry Award, the Fundacion Novacaixagalicia Prize, the Ojo Critico (best poetry book by a young author in Spain) and the Author of the Year by the Galician Booksellers' Association. She has been awarded International fellowships including the IWTCR in Rhodes, Villa Waldberta (Munich), the HIP-Beijing (China) and Hawthornden Castle. Keith Payne was the Ireland Chair of Poetry Bursary Award winner for 2015-2016. Recent collections include Broken Hill (Lapwing Publications, Belfast, 2015); Six Galician Poets (Arc Publications, 2016), Diary of Crosses Green (from the Galician of Martin Veiga, Francis Boutle Publishers, 2018), and The Desert from the Galician of Maria do Cebreiro (Shearsman Books, 2019). He is director of the La Malinche Readings Ireland/Galicia and the PoemaRia Poetry festival in Vigo.