Patricia Gonzalo de Jesús

Patricia Gonzalo de Jesús (1978, Barcelona) is a Spanish poet and translator whose work bridges various linguistic and cultural traditions. She earned a Master’s degree in Creative Writing in Spanish from the University of Iowa as a recipient of the Iowa Arts Fellowship. After studying at Charles University in Prague, Comenius University in Bratislava, and Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, she completed a degree in Slavic Philology at the Complutense University of Madrid. Among her translations are works by American poets Adrienne Rich and Anne Boyer, as well as Slovak poet Štefan Strážay. Her poetry collection Raíces aéreas (Aerial Roots, 2016) has been praised for its uniqueness and architectural precision, with critics comparing it to the work of Elizabeth Bishop and Marianne Moore.