Enrique Andrés Ruiz (Soria, 1961) is a unique poet and essayist, with a special gift for dismantling the conventions and commonplaces of our culture. His most recent published collections of poems are Los verdaderos domingos de la vida (The True Sundays of Life) (2017) and Ríos de Babilonia (Rivers of Babylon) (2021). His essays include Vida de la pintura (The Life of Painting) (2001), La tristeza del mundo. Sobre la experiencia política de lectura (The Sadness of the World. On the Political Experience of Reading) (2010) and La carroña. Essay on What is Lost (The Carrion. Essay on What is Lost) (2017), as well as Las dos hermanaes. Anthology of 20th-century Spanish and Latin American poetry on painting (2011). He has curated numerous contemporary art exhibitions and regularly collaborates with Babelia, the cultural supplement of the newspaper El País. In 2021, Periférica published his novel Los montes viejos (The Ancient Mountains), a book that has been in metamorphosis for more than ten years, in which the human memory of the landscape takes on an exceptional literary quality.