Anna Aguilar-Amat was born in Barcelona in 1962. She has a PhD from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona where she now teaches at the Translation Faculty.

She came to the foreground of Catalan poetry when she was awarded three of the most prestigious literary prizes for her books Trànsit entre dos vols (Transit between two flights, 2001), Música i escorbut (Music and Scurvy 2002), and Petrolier, (Oil Tanker, 2003). She has also published the book of poems Coses Petites (Little things), and a book of essays El plaer de la lectura (The pleasure of reading, 2004). Her fourth poetry book is Jocs de l’oca (The Goose Games, 2006). Her work has been included in several anthologies of Catalan poetry and has been translated into Spanish, English, French, Italian, Sardinian, Macedonian, Finnish, Arabic, and Slovenian.

Since 2003 she became president of QUARKpoesia, a non-profit group affiliated to the Translation Department of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and the cultural organization 'Cultura en Viu', whose main purpose is the promotion of lesser-known poets and writers in less translated languages, as well as the exchange of ideas and poetic works. In 2006 she founded the poetry publishers Refraccions (Refractions) with the aim of publishing bilingual or trilingual poetry books.