Julieta Valero (born 1971 in Madrid) is a Spanish poet who writes in Spanish.
She got a BA in Hispanic philology at Complutense University of Madrid, where she also continued studying a PhD in Modern and Contemporary Spanish Literature.
She published short stories, poems and articles in several literary medias such as ÃÂnsula, ABCD de las artes y las letras, Turia, Vulcane, Minerva, El Maquinista (de la General), Diario de PoesÃÂa (Argentina), and usually collaborates with literary magazines Encubierta, Diálogo de la lengua, Fósforo, Babab, La dama duende and the Spanish Culture ministry's magazine Literaturas.
She also took part of numerous anthologies such as: Inéditos: 11 poetas (2002), 33 de Radio 3 (2004), Todo es poesÃÂa menos la poesÃÂa. 22 poetas desde Madrid (2004), 11-M. Poemas contra el olvido (2004), PoesÃÂa pasión (2004), Deshabitados (2008), Fuga de la nada. 16 propuestas poéticas (2009), El poder del cuerpo. AntologÃÂa femenina contemporánea (2009), Palabras sobre palabras: 13 poetas españoles jóvenes (Chile, 2010) and Contrabando: una antologÃÂa de la poesÃÂa española actual (Argentina, 2011).
She is the author of the poetry collection Altar de los dÃÂas parados (Madrid, 2003), Los Heridos Graves (Barcelone, 2005, Prize IV Premio De PoesÃÂa Radio Joven de ) and AutorÃÂa (Barcelone, 2010, Prize XXII Premio de PoesÃÂa Cáceres Patrimonio de la Humanidad, Prize Premio Ausiás March 2010, and was elected as one of the 10 best books of the year by the magazine Quimera and one of the best books of 2010 by Babelia and El Cultural), as well as a short essay for the re-edition of Teatro de operaciones (Madrid, 2010).
She delivered numerous lectures and took part of numerous international festivals of poetry (Festival de PoesÃÂa de MedellÃÂn, Colombia, 2007; Encuentro de Poetas del Mundo Latino, Mexico, 2010). Many of their poems have been translated in the United States, in France, in Italy, in Germany, in Morocco, in Brazil, in Slovakia and in Greece.
She co-directed and presented along with for 5 years A ras de verso (radio broadcast of the Radio CÃÂrculo, belonging to the of Madrid), a poetry programme in which they interview a Spanish or Latino American poet based on his texts. She belongs to the council and work as editor and poetry specialist in the creative writings centre Hotel Kafka. Since 2008 she is coordinator at the Foundation of the Poetry Centre José Hierro.
In 2011, she takes part, along with nine other Spanish poets (Jordi Doce, Rafael Reig, Fernando Aramburu, Francisco Javier Irazoki, Santiago Auserón, Pilar Adón, Javier Azpeitia, Marta Agudo and Vicente Molina Foix) to a tribute to Raymond Queneau on the occasion of the fifty years anniversary of his cult book Hundred Thousand Billion Poems publication, by creating a Spanish version called Cien mil millones de poemas, but with a sonnet they composed themselves taking a leaf out of one of the Queneau's sonnet of their choice. The edition has been made in such a way that each line is disposed on a strap that can be put up so to see the line of the next poem, making thus easier to compose each one of the hundred thousand billion poems.