Introductory Note to Mirrors, Landscapes, Battles. 21st-Century Poetry by Women

has worked in the Biblioteca Nacional de Espaa since 2004, aside from a two-and-a-half-year sabbatical between early 2013 and late 2015 during which she wrote her first novel, Las vidas que pudimos vivir (2015).She has since written a further novel, La extraeza de la lluvia (maLuma, 2021) as well as two collections of short stories: Jaulas de hormign (Nia Loba, 2022), which was nominated for the Premio Setenil, one of the most prestigious literary awards in Spain, in the same year, and La mejor familia del mundo (Nia Loba, 2024).She also maintains an online presence through her blog, El Blog de Mae, which she uses as an outlet to express herself through her works of microfiction, and to reflect upon other literary topics, questions and debates.