Ana Merino

Place: Madrid

Born: 1971

Biography:

Ana Merino is a Spanish poet. She was born in Madrid, Spain in 1971. Ana Merino was between 2004 and 2009 an Assistant Professor of Spanish at Dartmouth College. She left Dartmouth in 2009 to create and develop the Spanish MFA at the University of Iowa that was inaugurated on 2011. She is a Full Professor of Spanish Creative Writing and Cultural Studies at The University of Iowa and was the founder director of their MFA in Spanish Creative Writing between 2011 and 2018. She has published two scholarly books on comics: El Comic Hispánico (Cátedra, 2003), Diez ensayos para pensar el cómic (Eolas, 2017), and a critical monograph on Chris Ware (Sinsentido 2005), a youth novel "El hombre de los dos corazones" (Anaya, 2009) and nine books of poetry, and was a recipient of the Adonais and Fray Luis de Leon awards for poetry. She was awarded the Diario de Avisos Award for best critical short articles about comics for the Spanish literary magazine Leer. In January 2020 she won the Nadal Award in Spain for her novel El mapa de los afectos . Between 2004 and 2014 Merino was a member of the Board of Directors for the Center for Cartoon Studies and between 2001 and 2011 a member of the executive committee of International Comic Art Forum. Merino's articles on comics have appeared in Leer, DDLV, The Comics Journal , International Journal of Comic Art , and Hispanic Issues. She has served as curator for four comics exhibitions and is the author of the artwork 'Vistas de Genil' (1930)