Brigitte Vasallo (Barcelona, 1973) is the daughter of a Galician peasant family who was expelled from the countryside. She doesn’t hold a university degree and has held many jobs including as a cleaner, waitress, journalist, and sailor. She currently spends her time writing and researching with a focus on the mechanisms of belonging and otherness, with a special interest in sexual difference and the memory of the rural diaspora.

She has been the Mercè Rodoreda Chair of Catalan Studies at City University of New York (CUNY), an artist-in-residence at the Spanish Academy in Rome 2023-2024, and a professor at the UAB’s master’s program in Gender and Communication.

She has published PornoBurka (2013), Pensamiento Monógamo, Terror Poliamoroso (Oveja Roja, 2017), Lenguaje Inclusivo y Exclusión de Clase (Larousse, 2021), and Tríptico del Silencio (La Oveja Roja, 2023), a work published in 3 simultaneous volumes in her three mother tongues. As a playwright, she has presented Un cos (possible) i lesbià in collaboration with the visual artist Alba G Corral, Naxos, drama en tres lamentos y un par de actos directed by Gena Baamonde, and the performance Queixa [què volen aquesta gent].

She directed and commissioned the the first Festival of “Xarnego” Culture in Barcelona. Her work has been translated into several languages, and she teaches as a guest lecturer at universities that would not take her as a student.

BY BRIGITTE VASALLO:

Tríptico del Silencio
NONFICTION, 2023
El desafío poliamoroso
NONFICTION, 2018/2021
Lenguaje inclusivo y exclusión de clase
NONFICTION, 2021
PornoBurka
FICTION, 2013