Sara Torres

Sara Torres Rodríguez de Castro (Gijón, 1991) is a Spanish poet and novelist. In 2014, she won the Gloria Fuertes Prize for children's poetry. For her first novel, Lo que hay, she received the "Javier Morote" Award, awarded by CEGAL (Spanish Confederation of Booksellers' Guilds and Associations), for the best new author in 2022. She is openly a lesbian and has discussed her experiences as a lesbian woman and her writing about love and desire between women in interviews and essays on lesbian identity.

Education She studied Spanish Language and Literature at the University of Oviedo. She received her PhD from Queen Mary University of London with the thesis The Lesbian Text: Fetish, Fantasy and Queer Becomings. Also in London, she completed an interdisciplinary master's degree at King's College London specializing in theories of textuality, psychoanalysis, queer studies, and feminism.

Career Torres has been a professor of cultural studies with a gender perspective at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. In 2022, she was the coordinator of the Poetry in Action cycle at the Carmen Thyssen Museum in Málaga.

As of 2022, she lives in Germany and works on a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Passau, researching the writing that emerges after receiving a cancer diagnosis She also writes regularly for elDiario.es in the section (It's okay to feel).

Awards 2014, Premio Gloria Fuertes, XV edition, for La otra genealogía 2022, Premio Javier Morote, for Lo que hay

Selected works Books La otra genealogía. Torremozas, 2014 Conjuros y cantos. Kriller71, 2016 Phantasmagoria. La Bella Varsovia, 2019 El ritual del baño. La Bella Varsovia, 2021 Lo que hay. Reservoir Books, 2022. (Premio Javier Morote), 2022 Deseo de perro. Letraversal, 2023 La seducción. Reservoir Books, 2024

Collective work Querida Theresa. Comisura, 2022

Participation in anthologies Outra maneira de olhar (editors: Carlos Castillo Pais & Miguel Floriano) Ediçoes Colobri, Lisboa 2020.