Elena Medel

Elena Medel was born in Córdoba, Spain, in 1985.^[1]

Medel has published several collections of poetry, including Mi primer bikini (2001; DVD 2002;^[1] translated into English by Lizzie Davis, My First Bikini, 2015);^[2] Tara (2006); and Chatterton, which won the Loewe Young Poets Prize in 2014.^[2] She has also published chapbooks Vacaciones (2004)^[3][1] and Un soplo en el corazón (2007). She wrote "El mundo mago" (2015), an essay about Spanish poetAntonio Machado.^{[citation needed]}

She has also republished many of her poems in the volume Un día negro en una casa de mentira (2015),^{[citation needed]} and her work has been translated into several languages, including Italian and Portuguese.^[1]

She is the editorial director of La Bella Varsovia, formerly a publishing house focused on poetry. In November 2021, La Bella Varsovia became an imprint of the publishing house Anagrama, with Medel continuing as director.^[4]

• Mi primer bikini (Premio Andalucía Joven 2001; Barcelona, DVD, 2002). 64 pages ISBN 84-95007-65-7^[2]
• Vacaciones (Almería, El Gaviero, 2004). 32 pages, ISBN 84-933751-1-X.
• Tara (Barcelona, DVD, 2006). 80 pages, ISBN 84-96238-50-4.