Margarita Ferreras

María Margarita Ferreras Lorenzo (1900–1964) was a Spanish writer and poet of the Generation of '27.

Biography Margarita Ferreras was born in Alcañices on 26 February 1900, to Abelisa Lorenzo García, a native of Canfranc, and Francisco Ferreras Toro, a native of Alcañices. Her father was treasury controller of the Province of Palencia. Her uncle was José Ferreras Toro, journalist, lawyer, and politician of the Constitutional Party.

She earned a school honors diploma in 1878. When her father died, the family moved to Madrid, where she became involved with cultural figures. She aspired to star in Federico García Lorca's play The Love of Don Perlimplín and Belisa in the Garden, but her role went to the writer and actress Magda Donato. She also published in magazines such as Proa.

In the early 1930s, after publishing her book Pez en la tierra, Ferreras disappeared from public life. She was briefly admitted to a sanatorium due to nervous problems, and was diagnosed with "exogenous psychosis". The writer Manuel Altolaguirre recalled in his memoir El caballo griego: reflexiones y recuerdos (1927–1958) that he met Ferreras in Valencia during the Spanish Civil War, "with her reason lost".

She resided in Murcia in 1939. After the Civil War, she returned to Madrid for a time, later moving to Zamora. Ferreras died in Palencia on 19 November 1964, and is buried in the Nuestra Señora de los Ángeles municipal cemetery. Ferreras dedicated it to Juan Ramón Jiménez, and it was prefaced by Benjamín Jarnés.

The book met with great critical success, with favorable reviews from newspapers such as ABC, Heraldo de Madrid, La Libertad, and , placing Ferreras among the ranks of prominent poetic figures of the day.

Recognition In 2010, published an anthology of women poets from the Generation of '27, titled Pez en la tierra in reference to Ferreras's book.

One of her romances, "Por la verde, verde oliva", was set to music by the singer as part of the project Cantando a las poetas del 27.

In October 2022, her work was included in the exhibition Las Sinsombrero at the Fernán Gómez Centro Cultural de la Villa in Madrid.

On 18 November 2023, a floral tribute and poetry reading were held at her gravesite, organized by the teacher and writer Dolores Fidalgo and the Círculo Literario Margarita Ferreras de Alcañices.