Joan-Elies Adell (1968) was born in Vinaròs, located in the south of Catalonia. He holds a Ph. D. in Literature and a Masters in Audiovisual Communication. Until he recently took a position as Director of the Institut Ramon Llull at Alghero, a Catalan-speaking city in Sardinia (Italy), he taught full time as a professor of literature and technology in the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya.
As a poet Joan-Elies Adell has published six award-winning collections: Oceà immòbil [Motionless Ocean], 1995, A curt termini [Short Term], 1997, Un mateix cel [The Same Sky], 2000, Encara una olor [Even a chance smell], 2003, La degradació natural dels objectes [The Natural Decay of Objects] , 2004 and Pistes falses [Falses clues], 2006.
Adell has also written essays in the field of literary studies and contemporary music.