Yayo Herrero

Invitado de Honor

(1965) Herrero has a PhD in Social and Political Science, a degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology, and a degree in Social Education and Agricultural Technical Engineering. She is a member-worker at Garúa Sociedad Cooperativa, as well as a consultant, researcher, teacher and writer in the fields of political ecology, eco-feminism, eco-social transitions and education for the sustainability of life. For decades, she has been combining her work with active participation in social movements, especially the environmental movement.

Her latest publications are Toma de Tierra (2023, Caniche), Ecofeminismos. La sostenibilidad de la vida (Icaria, 2023), Educar para la sostenibilidad de la vida. Una mirada ecofeminista a la educación (2022, Octaedro), Derechos Humanos (2022, Litera), Ausencias y extravíos (2021, Ediciones Contextatarias y Libros en Acción) and Ecofeminismos para tiempos de crisis (2020, Pabellón 6).

She has coordinated and written in works such as Tiempo para la vida (Charo Morán, Helena Pariente and Yayo Herrero; 2022, Ayuntamiento de Barcelona), Cambio climático (Yayo Herrero, María González Reyes and Berta Páramo; 2019, Ediciones Litera), La vida en el centro. Voces y relatos ecofeministas (Yayo Herrero, María González, Marta Pascual, illustrated by Emma Gascó; 2018, Libros en Acción), La gran encrucijada. Sobre la crisis ecosocial y el cambio de ciclo histórico (Fernando Prats, Yayo Herrero, Alicia Torrego; 2016, Libros en Acción), Cambiar las gafas de ver el mundo. Una nueva cultura de sostenibilidad (Yayo Herrero, Fernando Cembranos and Marta Pascual (coords.); 2011, Libros en Acción), Educación y Ecología. El currículum oculto antiecológico de los libros de texto (Fernando Cembranos, Yayo Herrero y Marta Pascual (coords.); 2007, Editorial Popular).

She has published dozens of articles in anthologies. Part of her work has been translated into Catalan, Basque, Italian, French, English, German and Korean.

Other activities involving the participant:

Worldly ailments of the Earth

Luci Romero

Invitado de Honor

(1980, Cabra, Córdoba) is a cultural manager, writer and (ex)bookseller, with a degree in Art History, a Master's in Conservation and Management of Cultural Heritage, and a Postgraduate in Literature Theory and Literary Critique (Universidad de Valencia). For nine years, she co-owned the Bartleby bookstore in Valencia.

As a poet, she is the author of the books: Autovía del Este, El diluvio (Amargord), Western (Delirio) and El tiempo de la quema (Ejemplar único). She also appears in the anthology Sais.Diecinueve poetas desde La Bella Varsovia (La Bella Varsovia). She was the co-editor of the Flechas de Atalanta booklet, which features poetry and illustrations, and in 2010, she won the La Voz+joven Award from La Casa Encendida. In 2023, she published the essay on the writing of nature or literature, El arte de contar la naturaleza.Un acercamiento a la nature writing (Barlin Libros). In 2024, she published the poetry book No sabe la semilla de qué mano ha caído from Eolas publishers.

She has featured in festivals such as Letras Verdes and Siberiana. In 2023, she received the inaugural Literature and Environment Residency from the National Center for Environmental Education (CENEAM) within the National Parks organization.

She currently lives in Valencia.

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The letters of the garden

Mariana Matija

Mariana Matija es un animal que dibuja y escribe. Su trabajo se centra en la exploración creativa, la educación y la comunicación en torno a la regeneración de nuestra relación individual y colectiva con la Tierra. Desde el club ecologista que fundó en la infancia, y después con su blog, newsletter, pódcast, libros y talleres, se ha dedicado a compartir ideas, prácticas y herramientas para cultivar vidas que cuiden de la Tierra y de todos sus seres (incluyéndonos a nosotros mismos). Dirige y cuida una comunidad online que funciona como una red de cuidado y coaprendizaje para quienes quieren cultivar vidas con sentido en medio de la crisis, compartiendo prácticas que nutren la atención, el cuidado y el asombro. Su libro más reciente, Niñapájaroglaciar, explora la relación con la belleza, el dolor, el amor, la extinción, el lenguaje, la memoria, el paisaje como cuerpo, y el cuerpo como paisaje en el fin de un mundo (que es también un principio).
 

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The language of plants and animals

Jorge Comensal

Writer and editor. He has published the novels Las mutaciones (2016), translated into a dozen languages, and Este vacío que hierve (2022), as well as the essay Yonquis de las letras (2017) and the biography El biólogo de la Revolución (2024). His essays, chronicles, and articles have appeared in magazines such as Gatopardo, Tierra Adentro, nexos, The Paris Review, and Revista de la Universidad de México, of which he is currently the director. He is a columnist for El País and Chilango, and is writing the history of the reintroduction of the California condor in Mexico.

Other activities involving the participant:

The craft of being an author. From notebook to book

Daniela Catrileo

Es escritora y profesora de filosofía. Ha publicado los libros de poesía Río herido (Edicola, 2016), Guerra florida (Del Aire, 2018), El territorio del viaje (Edicola, 2021), Las aguas dejaron de unirse a otras aguas (Pez Espiral, 2020), Todas quisimos ser el sol (Las Guachas, Argentina, 2023). El libro de relatos Piñen (Pez Espiral, 2019; Las Afueras 2022), la novela Chilco (Seix Barral, 2023) y el libro ensayo Sutura de las aguas. Un viaje especulativo sobre la impureza (Kikuyo, 2024). Recibió el Premio Municipal de Literatura de Santiago, mención poesía (2019), el Premio Mejores obras literarias, mención cuento (2020) y el primer lugar del concurso Ax: Encuentro de las Culturas Indígenas y Afrodescendiente (2020) por su obra audiovisual Llekümün. 

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Latin America Viva
New masculinities: deconstructing to build better men?

María Sánchez

Invitado de Honor

Veterinarian and writer. She works with endangered native breeds, advocating for other forms of production and husbandry, such as agroecology, grazing and extensive rearing. She regularly appears in the media to discuss literature, feminism, extensive rearing, food and culture, and rural topics.

She is the author of the poem collections Cuaderno de campo and Fuego la sed, and of the books Tierra de mujeres: una mirada íntima y familiar al mundo rural, and Almáciga. Her books have been translated into several languages.

She has received different awards, including the INJUVE Premio Nacional de Juventud de Cultura, for contributing, through her poetry, "to raising awareness in a model and innovative way of the need to maintain rural life"; the 2023 Andalusia Medal for Environmental Merit, and the 44th Julio Camba Afundación International Journalism Award. 

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Rain without ice, please: the world is thirsty

Gabi Martínez

Invitado de Honor

She is a writer. His work, translated in 10 countries and adapted to various narrative formats, has received numerous awards and acknowledgements, especially his non-fiction books, In the land of giants, Un cambio de verdad, En la Barrera, Naturalmente urbano, Lagarta and the novels Sudd, Voy and Las defensas. Delta was chosen the best book of 2023 by the literary magazine WMagazín.

Protagonist of the episode Colombian massif in the documentary series Finding Encanto, awarded a Dolphin at the Cannes Festival.

He is the director of the Liternatura Festival, a founding member of the Caravana Negra and Lagarta Fernández associations, of the Urban and Territorial Ecology Foundation, and co-director of the project “Invisible Animals”.

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Rain without ice, please: the world is thirsty
The Pleasure of Reading Gala