Arantzazu Martinez Etxarri (Donostia, 1965). She graduated in Basque Philology from the University of Deusto and she obtained a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. She completed a musical career, obtaining a degree in piano, music theory, choral music and harmony.
The greatest thing that has happened to her is being a mother and this is shown in most poems of the collection Haize gaziak, together with her musical knowledge and admiration to the sea.
She has won several short story competitions, such as the XVI San Sebastian Kutxa Literature first prize and a Literacy Competition at the University of California, Los Angeles.
She has recently published the translation of the novel Lehenbiziko harria (2023) with the editorial Dakit. She has also published several poems in the magazines Hatsaren Poesia, Maiatz and Touroum bouroum. Haize gaziak is the first poems collection she publishes.
