Valeria Correa Fiz was born and grew up in Rosario, Argentina, and lives in Madrid. She coordinates the Book Club of the Cervantes Institute in Milan and gives workshops on creative writing in Milan and Madrid. She is the author of a collection of short stories for which she was a finalist of the 4th Gabriel Garcia Marquez Hispano-American Story Prize in 2016 and the Setenil Prize in 2017; and a poetry collection that was a finalist in the First Manuel del Cabral Poetry Prize in 2016, and won the 11th Claudio Rodríguez International Poetry Award in 2017. Her poems and stories have appeared in a range of different anthologies and have been translated into English, Italian, Hebrew and Romanian.