Melisa Machado (Durazno, Uruguay, 1966) currently lives in Montevideo, where she works as a journalist, writer, art critic, and therapist. Her books of poetry include Ritual de las Primicias (1994), El lodo de la Estirpe (2005), Adarga (2000), Jamba de Flores Negras (2006), Marjal o Animal (2008), Rituales (2011), and El Canto Rojo (2013), which was published in translation in Italian in 2014 and Swedish in 2015.