The Hemingway Center Reading Series and Creative Writing MFA Program present poet Leire Bilbao and Joana Urtasun, her translator, for a reading, Q&A and book signing.

Event Details

At 7:30 PM on Friday, April 3, 2026, Wright will give a reading of her work, followed by a Q and A and book signing. Free and open to the public, the Hemingway Center Reading Series brings renowned writers to campus each year.

About Leire Bilbao

Leire Bilbao (Ondarroa, 1978) authored several poetry collections, including "Ezkatak" (Susa, 2006); "Scanner" (Susa, 2011), a bilingual anthology; "Entre escamas" (Marisma, 2018), and "Etxeko urak" (Susa, 2020). This last collection won the Lauaxeta Prize and has been translated into Spanish (Aguas Madres), Catalan (Saliva), Greek (Nepa Manez) and Italian (Acque di casa). Bilbao has published several children’s books and has received the Premio Euskadi for Children’s literature on two occasions, as well as the 2019 Kirico Prize for her book Bichopoemas (Kalandraka, 2019) and recently the national Prize of Children´s and Young Literature for Klera (Elkar, 2024).

About Joana Urtasun

Joana Urtasun is a writer and translator who grew up between the Basque Country and the UK and is based in New York. She received her MFA in Poetry and Literary Translation from Columbia University. Her work has appeared in The London Magazine, METAL Magazine, Berkeley Poetry Review, and Anthropocene Poetry Journal, among others, and she was a finalist in The Sewanee Review’s sixth poetry contest. Leire Bilbao’s, Between Fish Scales: Selected Poems (World Poetry, 2026) is her first book of translation.