Mireia Calafell i Obiol (Barcelona, 1980) is a poet and cultural producer. She holds a degree in Humanities from Pompeu Fabra University and has been co-director of the POESIA i + festival (2015–2016) and Barcelona Poesia (2018–2021).
She is one of the founders of the cultural production company La Sullivan, where she develops cultural and educational projects in the fields of thought, literature, art, and music, always with a focus on social impact.

Mireia Calafell’s poetry has been translated into several languages, and her books have received numerous awards, including the 2015 Lletra d’Or for Tantes mudes, and the 2021 Josep Maria Llopart Award for Best Poetry Collection for Nosaltres, qui. Her first collection, Poètiques del cos, won both the Amadeu Oller Prize in 2006 and the Anna Dodas Prize. Her most recent book, Si una emergència, was awarded the 2023 Carles Riba Prize. A few months ago, Cafè Central published an anthology of her poems under the title Aquesta sang.

Her poetry centres on the body as the primary subject, reflecting on its relationship with the world and with existence itself. Identity, submission, rebellion against the system, sensitivity to difference and individuality, and subversion of what is established all link her poetic voice with this season’s theme, “rituals,” from a critical standpoint. Ritual, understood as what everyone follows, becomes in Calafell’s poetry something to question, to place “under quarantine,” in order to uncover the truth of being.