Gemma Gorga was born in Barcelona in 1968. She has a Ph.D. in Philology from the University of Barcelona, where she is Professor of Medieval and Renaissance Spanish Literature. She has published six collections of poetry. These prose poems are from Llibre dels minuts (Book of Minutes, Barcelona, 2006), which won the Premi Miquel de Palol (2006) and appeared in a Catalan-Spanish bilingual edition, Libro de los minutos y otros poemas, (Book of Minutes and Other Poems, Valencia, 2009, translated by V. Berenguer).