Mariel Manrique

Mariel Manrique was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1968. She graduated as a lawyer from the University of Buenos Aires. She also studied History of Art. She is a poet and fiction writer, who also colaborates as a journalist in several media in Latin America and Spain (v.gr., Shangrila Ediciones -www.shangrilaediciones.com), writing essays on cinema, painting and literature.

Her first book of poetry, "La constelación de Andrómeda" ("Andromeda's Constellation") was published in 2009 by Editorial Crack-Up and presented by the Argentine writer Rodolfo Fogwill in Buenos Aires. It was also presented at several readings in the U.S. (New York and Chicago).

By the end of 2010 she published "Descartes in Holanda" ("Descartes in the Netherlands") with Paradiso Ediciones, presented in Valparaíso, Chile, in April of 2011.

Both books will be presented in Spain this year.

She lives in Buenos Aires with her life-partner (with whom she keeps the digital magazine "The Chelsea Papers" - http://thechelseapapers.blogspot.com) and their four dogs. She wants to become a dog some day.

She keeps the blogs http://pajarodechina.blogspot.com, http://putasdebabilonia.blogspot.com (on erotic writing) and, together with the Spanish poet Ruth Llana and, both in English and Italian, http://pensieri-involoradente.blogspot.com.