Jordi Cussà Balaguer (Berga, 1961) knows from first hand experience the torture of heroine and the hell of addiction and this is reflected in his first book, Wild Horses (Caballos Salvajes, 2000) and in "Formentera Lady" (2015). The author of twelve novels, two collections of short stories and one of poetry, Jordi Cussà is also a playwright and actor. In addition, he has translated, to Catalan, the work of several authors including, Patricia Highsmith, Chuck Palahniuk and Truman Capote. He has commented on more than one occasion that he would like to be seen as "an author who was once a junkie, and not as a junkie who once wrote a book".