Estíbaliz Espinosa Río (A Coruña) is a Galician poet, translator, essayist, and science communicator who uniquely blends literature, science, and arts. Holding degrees in Sociology and Hispanic Philology from UDC, her work explores astronomy, mathematics, biology, and technology through poetry, breaking barriers between humanities and STEM. A mezzo-soprano singer, she collaborates with A Coruña Planetarium, the Galician Symphony Orchestra, and outlets like Cuaderno de Cultura Científica and Luzes. Since 2007, she has directed trailblazing initiatives on poetry, science and music in A Coruña, as Written in the Sky (Escrita no ceo) Please Paint a Bison in the Cave (Pinte un bisonte na caverna por favor) Entanglement (O entrelazamento) The Curious Ones: Letters and Sciences (As curiosas: son de letras e ciencias) Starstruck (Estrelecidas) The Science of the Poem (A ciencia do poema) Curious Coruña (Coruña Curiosa).
Pioneer of Galician science poetry, her collections combine scientific rigor with vulnerable lyricism, gender perspective, and cosmic wonder. She has translated Herland as Donaira (Boadicea, 2026) and written stories on women scientists (Cápsulas de soN, 2015). Awarded prizes like Esquío, Díaz Xácome, Espiral Maior, Afundacion-Pen Club and Saramago, her texts have been translated into Japanese, Hebrew, Catalan, Farsi, German, Italian and English. She leads workshops on poetry-astronomy and explores motherhood, AI, and scientific culture in essays like Curioseando (2014) and Curiosas na Lúa (2021).