A writer, translator and journalist, she was born in Valladolid. She studied for a doctorate in English at the Universidad de Salamanca, specialising in Modern Middle Eastern History after a degree in Arabic and Islam at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Work: Enaguas de color salmón (Salmon Coloured Petticoat) (Premio Fray Luis de León, 1999), La Isla Móvil (The Mobile Island) (2005) Cráter (2007 Premio Miguel Delibes de Narrativa), Los Años Equivocados (The Wrong Years) (Premio de Novela Ciudad de Salamanca 2009), Soñar con Ballenas (Dreaming of Whales) (2012) and El Olvido y otras cosas imposibles (Forgetting, and other impossible things). With Desvelo Ediciones she has published 'Hijas de Agar' (Daughters of Agar)