Olvido García Valdés (Asturias, España, 1950) resides in Toledo. Her poetry collections, except for her most recent Lo solo del animal, have been published together in one volume Esa polilla que delante de mí revolotea (Poesía reunida). She has translated Pier Paolo Pasolini’s La religión de mi tiempo y Larga carretera de arena and contributed to a comprehensive anthology of poetry in Spanish translation of Anna Akhmatova and Marina Tsvetaeva. She also authored the biographical study Teresa de Jesús and is co-editor of the magazines Los Infolios and El signo del gorrión. In 2007 she was awarded the Premio Nacional de Poesía (National Poetry Prize) for her collection Y todos estábamos vivos.
