Sara Torres


Sara Torres Rodríguez de Castro is a Spanish poet and novelist. In 2014, she won the Gloria Fuertes Prize for children's poetry. For her first novel, Lo que hay, she received the "Javier Morote" Award, awarded by CEGAL , for the best new author in 2022.

Education

She studied Spanish Language and Literature at the University of Oviedo. She received her PhD from Queen Mary University of London with the thesis The Lesbian Text: Fetish, Fantasy and Queer Becomings. Also in London, she completed an interdisciplinary master's degree at King's College London specializing in theories of textuality, psychoanalysis, queer studies, and feminism.

Career

Torres has been a professor of cultural studies with a gender perspective at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. In 2022, she was the coordinator of the Poetry in Action cycle at the Carmen Thyssen Museum in Málaga.
As of 2022, she lives in Germany and works on a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Passau, researching the writing that emerges after receiving a cancer diagnosis She also writes regularly for elDiario.es in the section Está bien sentir.

Awards

  • 2014, Premio Gloria Fuertes, XV edition, for La otra genealogía
  • 2022, Premio Javier Morote, for ''Lo que hay''

Selected works

Books

  • La otra genealogía. Torremozas, 2014
  • Conjuros y cantos. Kriller71, 2016
  • Phantasmagoria. La Bella Varsovia, 2019
  • El ritual del baño. La Bella Varsovia, 2021
  • Lo que hay. Reservoir Books, 2022., 2022
  • Deseo de perro. Letraversal, 2023
  • La seducción. Reservoir Books, 2024

Collective work

  • Querida Theresa. Comisura, 2022

Participation in anthologies

  • Outra maneira de olhar Ediçoes Colobri, Lisboa 2020.