Betina González (Argentina, 1972) has a master's degree in creative writing from the University of Texas, El Paso and a PhD in Latin American literature from the University of Pittsburgh. She has published Arte menor (Minor Art; Clarín Novel Prize, 2006), Juegos de playa (Beach Games; a short story collection awarded a prize by the Fondo Nacional de las Artes in 2006), Las poseídas (The Possessed; Premio Tusquets, 2012), Delusional America (2016) and El amor es una catástrofe natural (Love Is a Narural Disaster, 2018). She has given conferences and workshops on fiction writing in various institutions: the University of Texas, El Paso, the University of Iowa, Carnegie Mellon University the Biblioteca Nacional Argentina and the Fundación Tomás Eloy Martínez. She teaches literature and writing in the Faculty of Social Science of the Universidad de Buenos Aires and the University of New York in Buenos Aires.