Elena Medel

Bio: Elena Medel is a Spanish writer and the founder and publisher of La Bella Varsovia, now a poetry imprint of Anagrama. Medel was the first woman ever to win the prestigious Francisco Umbral Prize for her debut novel, The Wonders (Algonquin), which was also longlisted for the Finestres Award and has been translated into fifteen languages. She published her prize-winning first collection of poetry, My First Bikini (Jai Alai Books), when she was sixteen years old.

Events: The Cheuse Salon: Elena Medel & Leeya Mehta in Conversation, An Evening with Elena Medel & Linda Chavez, Reading & Conversation with Elena Medel & Rei Berroa, Literatura española