Gemma Gorga was born in Barcelona in 1968, where she is a professor of Medieval and Renaissance Spanish literature. She has published six collections of poetry: Ocellania (Birdology, Barcelona, 1997); El desordre de les mans (The Hands' Disorder, Lleida, 2003); Instruments òptics (Optical Instruments, València, 2005); Llibre dels minuts (Book of Minutes, Barcelona, 2006), which won the Premi Miquel de Palol (2006); Diafragma (Diaphragm, Girona, 2012); and Mur (Wall, Barcelona, 2015), which won the Premi de la Critica de Poesia Catalana. Book of Minutes, translated by Sharon Dolin, is forthcoming in The Field Translation Series/Oberlin College Press in Spring 2019.