Funny Little Spiders

Poet and writer awarded with the 2022 Cervantes Chico. She works as reading and creativity promotor at schools, libraries and cultural centers. She’s specialist in children’s poetry and coordinates the poetry area of Atrapavientos and elsitiodelaspalabras.es, while training creative writing workshops at Fuentetaja. Among other books, she’s the author of the Cherry series, Nicolasa, Where Is Your Home?, Who Is Inside?, I Have Eaten Nothing, What Are They Doing?, and Bits & Bites, which belong to the Marsupiflap series.

Luisa Vera was born in Elda, Alicante. In 1985, she completed her Fine Arts degree in Valencia and then moved to New York, where she attended the School of Visual Arts. Since 1990, she has dedicated herself professionally to illustration. Her works have been featured in The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Dallas Morning News, The Wall Street Journal, The International Herald Tribune, La Vanguardia, and El País, and her characters have graced book covers, posters, catalogs, children’s stories, and exhibitions. Since 2002, she has lived in Barcelona.