Jordi Morell was born in Ivars d’Urgell in 1975 and is an agronomist and forest engineer. To date he has written short stories, irrigation projects, a travel blog, flooding studies and rambling tales. He has won various literary prizes: the Premio Literario de la Universidad de Lleida for his novella Reflex, the Premio Literario de Cuentos Cortos de las Homilías de Orgañá for Samarkanda and the Premio Lletraferit del Ateneu for the work Doble Sessió. Iceland, Rhyolite Dreams is his first published novel.