Lorena Chanes was born in Montevideo, Uruguay on November 1 1984. She moved to Spain (El Masnou, Barcelona) with her parents and sister in 1990. She has lived in Paris, Madrid, and Paris again, where she lives today. She studied physics at the Universidad de Barcelona and is currently doing a PhD at the École de Neurosciences in Paris. Her novel 'Nosotros los no-escritores' won the XV Premio de la Universidad de Sevilla.'