Isabel M. Ortega i Rion

Isabel M. Ortega Rion (Tarragona, 1955) is a writer from Tarragona who has worked as a teacher of Catalan Language and Literature at the Esteve Terrades Secondary School in Cornellà de Llobregat. With a degree in Psychology and Philosophy, she has collaborated in the Philosophy and Gender seminar at Universitat de Barcelona (UB) researching the work of Simone Weil, whose collection of articles, Escrits sobre la guerra (1997) she has translated. In 1994, she published the novel Viatge d'anada. In poetry, she has published Enfilall (XXII Premi Comas i Maduell Ciutat de Tarragona, 2002), Runa plena (2004), Nómada (2009), Medusa (2013) and Cues de sargantana (2019). She has participated in several collective publications and given group and solo recitals.

Olga Xirinacs has said of the author's poetry: "She has the gift of free expression and of containing ideas in the necessary condensation of verse. A difficult thing for poets, the condensation of the word, but I am happy when the literary game makes it possible to express ideas with fair, precise words, which are always new because of the combination of fullness, beauty and attention to detail in itself."

In some structurally well-thought-out works, Ortega has explored diverse registers and landscapes. It allows us to trace personal itineraries throughout the poems from a poetic self that does not impose its voice, but rather shares it with the readers. She often speaks to us from this unfolding trait 一in characters from classical mythology or from other areas, from the different selves of the author一 of the passage of time, of the memories that shape us, of existence. She is undoubtedly an artisan of words, who dominates and harmonizes with imagination, makes us feel the power of words and their furiously vital pulse.