Elia Barceló was born in Elda, Alicante in 1957, and studied Hispanic and Anglo-Germanic philology. She is married with two children. She currently lives in Innsbrück, Austria, where she teaches Spanish literature and composition at the university. She combines this job with her work as a writer, a field in which she has enjoyed great success in all the genres she writes in, including detective novels, science fiction, fantasy, and works for children.