Cristina Macía is the author of supremely practical cookbooks for people who have little spare time but who still wish to eat good food. The highly readable instructions to her recipes are easy to follow, and unashamedly use commonly available ingredients which make life simpler.

Cristina M. Menéndez Maldonado is a journalist and writer. She is the author of the text. Among her other published books 'Palabras de lluvia' ('Rainy Words') was selected by the 2018 New Spanish Books UK panel. Rut Villamagna is a painter and set designer. She did the illustrations.

I was born in Barcelona and I am an illustrator. As a girl I was a real scaredy-cat! Now I prefer drawing monsters, witches, skeletons and ghosts to princes, princesses and fairies.

マドリード⽣まれ。知的財産法専⾨の弁護⼠として13年間就業。2009年、El hombre que mareaba con la rotación de la Tierra（地球の⾃転に酔っていた男、2009）でビーリャ・ポスエロ・デ・アラルコンYA⼩説賞を受賞。翌年La casa de los amores imposibles（叶わぬ恋の家、2010） を刊⾏。このふたつの出来事を機に、執筆専念のため弁護⼠業を辞める。