In collaboration with the Residencia Literaria 1863,  Coruña, Spain, we welcome in August a Galician poet Lucía Ferro.

Biography

I was born on the coast of Lugo into a fragmented family whose very chaos became my “inspiration” to write. At the age of nine, I began composing stories on sheets torn from notebooks, stapling them together like makeshift books in the hope of being heard. I wasn’t heard, but at least I created something. During my adolescence, I turned to poetry and flash fiction to drown my sorrows amid a turbulent family life, and at university—while studying nursing—I devoted countless hours to writing, beginning and abandoning various novels.

During the ten years I worked in healthcare, I maintained several personal blogs and continued writing short fiction, which I composed while living abroad in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. It was not until 2018 that my living conditions allowed me to dedicate more time to literature and writing. Over time, I began work on what became my first novel and started contributing articles on popular culture and social criticism in English on the Medium platform.

After publishing my first book in Galician in 2021, I became certain that I wanted a life fully centered around literature. I have since reorganized my life to make that possible. The journey has been more challenging than one would like, but my love for the written word refuses to let me give up.

Bibliography

Fiction

• Resaibo Amargo: pharmaceuticals industry, domestic violence, caregiving, LGBTQ…
• En Brandán: a long word-play game exposing readers’ prejudices and first impressions.

Poetry

• Laídos Cardíacos: an autobiographical collection confronting the pain of childhood trauma.