© Laura C. VelaSabina Urraca
Invitado de Honor
(San Sebastián, 1984) is a writer and editor. She grew up in Tenerife and has lived in Madrid for over twenty years. She is the author of Las niñas prodigio (2017, Fulgencio Pimentel), winner of the Javier Morote Award, presented by the Spanish Confederation of Guilds and Associations of Booksellers (CEGAL), and selected by New Spanish Books, a program aimed at translating works in Spanish; Soñó con la chica que robaba un caballo (2021, Lengua de Trapo); Chachachá (Dueto) (2023, Comisura) and El celo (2024, Alfaguara). She has also featured in the anthologies Verónica... (2023, Bcn Producció, La Capella), Hospitalidad contra pronóstico (2023, Bartlebooth y Concomitentes), Tranquilas.Historias para ir solas de noche (2019, Lumen) and La errabunda (2018, Lindo y Espinosa).
Her stories and translations of some chapters of her books have been published in magazines such as The White Review (United Kingdom), The Washington Square Review (USA) and Picnic (Mexico), and she has collaborated with columns and articles in outlets such as El País, El Cultural, Vice and Cinemania. She has a monthly column in the literary magazine Zenda.
She has taught writing workshops in Spain, Mexico, El Salvador and Costa Rica. In 2020, she received the 10 de 30 grant, which promotes the internationalization of Spanish writers, as part of which she gave talks at the Instituto Cervantes in Chicago and Georgetown University in Washington.
In 2019, she debuted as editor with Panza de burro, by Andrea Abreu (Barrett), as part of the “Editor for a book” project. In 2020, she received the Master of Fine Arts (MFA) grant in Spanish Creative Writing from the University of Iowa. She is the resident editor of Caballo de Troya (Penguin Random House) for 2023 and 2024. In 2023, she was awarded a literary residency by the Finestres Foundation. In 2022, she received the Leonardo grant for creators from the BBVA Foundation.
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