Leila Guerriero was born in 1967 in Junín, in the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. She began her career in journalism in 1991, in the magazine Página/30. Since then, her texts have appeared in La Nación and Rolling Stone in Argentina; El País and Vanity Fair in Spain; El Malpensante and SoHo in Columbia; Gatopardo and El Universal in Mexico; Etiqueta Negra in Peru; Paula and El Mercurio in Chile; Granta in the `United Kingdom; Lettre Internationale in Germany and Romania and L'Internazionale in Italy, among others. She has published the book Los suicidas del fin del mundo (The End of the World Suicides), the anthologies Frutos extraños (Strange Fruit) and Plano americano (American Shot), in addition to the recently released Una historia sencilla. In 2010 her text El rastro en los huesos (The trace in the Bones), published in El País Semenal and Gatopardo was awarded the Premio CEMEX-FNPI.