Miriam Reyes

Born in Ourense, Galicia, in 1974, Miriam Reyes emigrated with her family to Venezuela as a child and returned to Spain at the age of twenty-one. She writes in both Galician and Spanish, and translates her own work from Galician into Spanish.

She has published seven collections of poetry, from Espejo negro (2001) to Con (2025), for which she received Spain’s National Poetry Prize. Her collected works appeared in 2022 as Extraña manera de estar viva. A substantial part of her work has been in performance poetry, and she has recently published her first novel, La edad infinita.