Pilar Fraile Amador is one of the most innovative of the generation of Spanish poets to come of age post Franco. Born in Salamanca in 1975, she earned her PhD in Philosophy from University of Oviedo and currently teaches at Enseñanza Secundaria. Her publications include El límite de la ceniza, Larva seguido de cerca, and Falta, among others. Her work has also been featured in the homage for José Ángel Valente, Pajaros raíces, and in the anthology La república de la imaginación, as well as in Forrest Gander’s most recent book of translation, Panic Cure: Poems from Spain for the 21st Century.