Leire Bilbao

Leire Bilbao is a poet and writer. She was born in Ondarroa (Basque Country) in 1978, and has published Ezkatak (Susa, 2006), Scanner (Susa, 2011) and Entre escamas (Marisma, 2018). Some of her poems have been translated into more than a dozen of languages and have been assembled in anthologies such as Forked Tongues, El poder del cuerpo, Traslúcidas, Las aguas tranquilas o Sombras diversas. Several basque artists have also used Bilbao’s poems for their music. In 2017 she was awarded with the Euskadi Prize for her children’s book Xomorropoemak (“Bugpoems”, Kalandraka, 2019), which is published in spanish, galician and catalan.