Collection of work

Poetry

Alba González Sanz has published four books of poetry, the first of which, in 2010, was thanks to the Gloria Fuertes Young Poetry Prize. During her university years, together with other female colleagues, she created Hesperya, a magazine that also launched a poetry collection that included titles by Laura Casielles and Sofía Castañón and the celebration of the National Young Poetry Meeting 'La ciudad en Llamas'. Throughout the years 2017 and 2018, she directed the poetry collection in Castilian Spanish for the Asturian publisher Saltadera, which, under the name Oscuro Dominio, published the first translation into Castilian Spanish of Antònia Vicens and works by Berta Piñán, Ana Gorría, Juan José Ceba, María García Díaz, and Luis Melgarejo. In that same publishing house, her latest poetry collection to date, Sonreíd, was published.

Essay(s)

As a result of her academic research, and midway between popular science and theoretical reflection, Alba González Sanz is the author of academic monographs and contributions to collective works of an essayistic nature, focused especially on the history of ideas and the feminist movement in Spain from the Enlightenment to the end of the Second Republic. She has also worked as a literary critic for various print and online media since 2004.

Narratives

Alba González Sanz is the author of about a dozen novelized biographies of relevant women from the Modern era. All of them are part of the 'Grandes Mujeres' (Great Women) collection (RBA) and have appeared in different formats from the publishing imprint since 2019, including newsstand and bookstore editions, as well as special monographs for the magazine Historia National Geographic. Thus, she is the sole author of: Mary Wollstonecraft, George Sand, Emilia Pardo Bazán, Rosa Luxemburg, Emmeline Pankhurst, Virginia Woolf, Clara Campoamor, Dolores Ibárruri, and Gertrude Stein, in addition to being the co-author of Rita Levi-Montalcini.

Miscellaneous