Daniel Ortiz was born in Las Palmas in 1975. Graduated in Law and in Journalism. His writing began as a side effect of backpacking around the World and becoming a sort of bum for several years. In 2003 he won the CajaCanarias Short Story Award with Suceso en un Zoo ilógico. His travelling years have always been a crucial teaching on his profound and critical writing style, noticeable in his further works: Servilletas desdobladas and La hija de la mula.