Cristina Menéndez is a journalist and author: "Writing is a task like inventing recipes or making perfumes. Its magic is the harmonious combination of the ingredients with the soul, like the only rose in the wind." Her publications include many works of investigative journalism, short stories with other authors in Album de Cuentos (A Short Story Picture Book; Catriel, 1995) and Las Mejores Historias de Amor o cómo rompimos la muerte a besos (Best Love Stories, or How We Beat Death with Kisses; Pigmalión Ediciones, 2012), El Alma de la Armonia (The Soul of Harmony; Dairea Ediciones, 2013), Diario de una artista (An Artist's Diary; Fundación Dalma, 2013), "Palabras de lluvia (Words of Rain) and Peditos pedetes pedotes (Eirene Editorial, 2013), Diosas del silencio (The Goddesses of Silence; Dairea, 2015),and the short stories "Sananamay" and "El huerto de las palabras" in El señor de las especias (The Spice Man; Eirene Editorial, 2017).