Teresa Moure is a writer of novels, poetry, plays and essays in Galician, and an associate professor of general linguistics at the University of Santiago de Compostela. Her work includes The Day of the Tree-Women (2004), winner of the short novel Lueiro Rey and the San Clemente prizes, and Moorish Herb (2007), translated into Catalan, Spanish, Romanian, Italian, Portuguese and Dutch, and winner of the Xerais, ALG and Spanish review prizes. She has twice won the Ramón Piñeiro essay prize, in 2005 for Another Language is Possible, and in 2012 for We Want a Queer New World. in 2008 she won the Rafael Dieste prize and the María Casares prize for theatre for A Spring for Aldara