Maria Isern Ordeig is a writer, researcher, and poet. She is the author of Sostre de carn (Francesc Garriga Prize 2017, La Breu, AdiA, Cafè Central, Edicions del Buc) and Rusc (NoLlegiu Prize, La Breu, 2023). The first book begins with an expansion that the second impels and transforms, more or less, into a colony of bees. Some of her poems have been translated into English, German, Greek, and Portuguese. She is also the co-author of the video essay Del peix, l’espina which debuted at Bòlit (Girona) in 2023 and seeks to unite longing and desire from the perspective of an anorexic body. She has a PhD in Gender Studies and Compared Literature from the University of Barcelona and Paris 8—Vincennes-Saint Denis University. Her thesis, which she completed at the ADHUC (Research Centre for Theory, Gender, Sexuality) and LEGS-CNRS (Laboratoire d’Études de Genre et de Sexualité), investigates the construction and perception of the orificial body in literature, film, and contemporary graphic novels. She has also taught at the UB and IMT-BS (Évry). She currently holds a position as an affiliated professor at the UOC, heads a reading series on Monique Wittig at Finestres bookshop, and works as a freelance writer and translator.