Carolina Sanín Paz was born in Bogotá. She received a Ph. D. in Hispanic Literature from Yale University, with a thesis on short story collections from the Middle Ages. Between 1998 and 2005 she lived in Barcelona, where she worked as a translator for several publishing houses.

She has written novels, essays, children’s stories and short stories. Some of her work has been translated into Italian. She has been a university professor, and is a regular contributor to major publications such as El Espectador and Semana. Her work appears in anthologies in Latin America, the United States and Spain.