Marina Perezagua has a degree in Art History from the University of Seville. She taught classes in Hispano-American language, literature, history, and film at the State University of New York, where she completed her doctorate in Hispanic Philology. After living for a long time in France and working at the Cervantes Institute in Lyons, she returned to New York, where she taught creative writing classes at New York University as Distinguished Writer in Residence. She is the author of the short story collections Criaturas abisales and Leche. She has published three novels: The Story of H, Don Quijote de Manhattan and Seis formas de morir en Texas (Anagrama), and a poetry book: Nana de la Medusa (Espasa). She will soon publish a book about the life story of the world’s number two freediver, Miguel Lozano, entitled A-122 metros (Planeta). She has published in a range of anthologies and literary magazines, including Renacimiento, Carátula, Sibila, Ñ, Quimera, Granta, Letras Libres, JotDown, Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos, Anfibia. Her work has been translated into nine languages and her novel The Story of H won the 2016 Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize. She writes for El País.
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