Carmen Moreno

Carmen Moreno Pérez is a Spanish writer and editor. She writes about women's rights and the LGBTQIA+ community. In her poetry collection Más que morir (Madrid, 2006), she tackles the issue of violence against women through her narrative.

Biography Moreno holds a bachelor's degree in Hispanic Philology from the University of Cádiz and a master's degree in accounting and finance from CEREM International Business School. She also holds a master's degree in publishing from the University of Salamanca.

In 1996, she worked with author on his books Las crónicas yugoslavas and Y al Sur, Jimena. Also around that time, she collaborated in several anthologies, and worked for newspaper Diario de Cádiz and radio network Cadena SER. In 2009, she worked part-time as a scriptwriter for Televisión Española's quiz show .

In 2011, she launched Colaterales, a citizens' platform to promote reading and the arts in Cádiz. It was headquartered at the cultural center. In 2014, she returned to Cádiz, where she began her career in publishing at the helm of imprint Cazador de Ratas (later renamed as Cazador). With this imprint, in 2017 she received the Ultratumba award for her venture into the horror and gothic genres.

She has also participated in various events by the Cádiz City Council and the Cádiz Provincial Council to promote reading and writing. With this institution, she toured the entire province with the exhibition El club de las poetas muertas. She also collaborates regularly with the (Centro Andaluz de las Letras; CAL) in programs such as PoetiCAL.

In 2018 she opened a bookstore specialising in feminist and LGBTQ+ literature.

Awards Fernando Quiñones National Prize for Short Story (2001) Short stories and essays Tocando el cielo (Ediciones I. Quorum, Cádiz, 2002) El temor inevitable (Ediciones En Huida, Sevilla, 2015) De lo urbano y lo divino (eMeGé Editores, Algeciras, 2016) Sin habitación propia (essay) (Fundación Novoneyra, Santiago de Compostela, 2016)

Poetry Plano urbano (Ediciones I. Quorum, Cádiz, 1996) Sombra mía (Sevilla, 2000) La tregua de la piel (Diputación de Cádiz, Cádiz, 2004) Asfalto bíblico (Aristas de Cobre, Córdoba, 2002) Más que morir (Madrid, 2006) Como el agua a tu cuerpo (Vitruvio, Madrid, 2009) Cuando dios se equivoca (EH Editores, Jerez de la Frontera, 2010) Moscú entre clavículas (Madrid, 2012) Relámpagos (LVR, Madrid, 2013) Irremediablemente. Deconstrucción (Ediciones En Huida, Sevilla, 2014)

Children's books Los ojos de Sara (Editorial Conexión Gráfica, Mexico, 2011) Hypatia. La contadora de estrellas (Editorial Conexión Gráfica, Mexico, 2011)

Illustrated stories Lightning P38 (Centro de Arte Moderno, Madrid, 2012)

Novels Principito debe morir (Sportula, Gijón, 2013) Principito debe morir (reprint) (Lapsus Calami, Madrid, 2013) Una última cuestión (Cazador de Ratas, Cádiz, 2015) Sherlock Holmes y las sombras de Whitechapel (Licenciado Vidriera, 2016) Mala sangre (Apache, 2017)

Comics Principito debe morir (comic adaptation) (Universo cómic, 2016)

Anthologies Antología poética de César Vallejo (Vitruvio, 2010) Mujeres que aman a mujeres (Vitruvio, 2012) Salitre 15. Nueva poesía gaditana (Ediciones En Huida, 2015)

Anthologies featuring Moreno 11 inicial. Última poesía en Cádiz (Cádiz, 2002) La mirada íntima (Jerez, 2003) Ilimitada voz. Antología de poetas españolas 1940-2002 (Cádiz, 2003) Reinas de Tarifa. Antología de poetas gaditanas actuales (Huelva, 2004) El placer de la escritura o Nuevo Retablo de Maese Pedro (Cádiz, 2005) Aquí y Ahora (Madrid, 2008) Y para qué + poetas (Centro Andaluz de las Letras, Sevilla, 2010) Blanco nuclear (Sial, Madrid, 2011) Lunta (short story anthology written in Finland, 2012) Nube (Ediciones Enhuida, Sevilla, 2013) 13 Puñaladas (Cádiz, Dosmil Locos, 2013) Más allá de Némesis (Sportula, Gijón, 2013) Aventureros (Montevideo, 2015) Historia de Mujeres (MAR Editorial, Madrid, 2015) Lecciones de asesinos expertos (La Esfera Cultural, 2016) Onírica. Hijos de Iquelo (James Crawford Publishing, 2016)

Collaborations with other authors