Mercedes Cebrián is one of the most fascinating and original voices in current Spanish poetry; she is interested in how the ideas and ideals by which we live our lives intersect with the minutiae of those lives, the quiddity of the everyday.
Mercedes Cebrián was born in Madrid. She writes fiction, journalistic essays and poetry and translates from English and French into Spanish. Her writing has been published in newspapers such as El País and La Vanguardia; and in journals and magazines such as Diario de Poesía (Buenos Aires), Poetry London, Modern Poetry in Translation and The Indian Quarterly. Her literary universe explores, among other aspects of reality, the emotional ties that humans develop with objects. She has been a writing fellow at the Residencia de Estudiantes de Madrid and the Spanish Academy in Rome, and a writer in residence in the Civitella Ranieri Foundation (Italy) and the Fondazione Santa Maddalena (Italy), among others. She holds MAs in Spanish and Latin American Studies from Birkbeck (University of London) and from the University of Pennsylvania (USA). Her memoir Cocido y Violonchelo was published in 2022 by Penguin-Random House in Spain. During 2018 she was the guest editor of the imprint Caballo de Troya (Penguin Random House).
