Elena Medel (Córdoba, 1985) is a Spanish poet. She lives in Madrid, Spain.
She is the editorial director of La Bella Varsovia, a publishing house centered on poetry.
She has published the poetry books Mi primer bikini (2002; translated into English by Lizzie Davis, My First Bikini, 2015), Tara (2006) and Chatterton (Loewe Young Poets Prize, 2014)[1] and the chapbooks Vacaciones (2004)[2] and Un soplo en el corazón (2007); she is also the author of El mundo mago (2015), an essay about Antonio Machado. Medel has reunited her poems in the volume Un día negro en una casa de mentira (2015), and she has been translated into a dozen of languages.