Anna Ballbona (Montmeló, 1980) is a journalist at the newspaper El Punt Avui and collaborates on the magazines El Temps and Vallesos. She has published two books of poems: Conill de gàbia (La Breu Edicions, 2012) and La mare que etrenyava era un robot (Premi Amadeu Oller a poetes joves, Galerada, 2008). She has recently worked on a project to recover the work and biography of the journalist Eugeni Xammar. In 2014 she was selected for a writers residency in New York at Ledig House, in New York State where she wrote Joyce i les gallines, her first novel.