Nuria Barrios (Madrid, 1962) has a PhD in Philosophy. She is a journalist, a translator and the author of over a dozen works, including poetry books, short-stories and novels. Her works have been translated to Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, Croatian and Esperanto.

As a columnist, she has been awarded by the Fundación Mastia. Among his works one should mention the books of poetry El hilo de agua (Algaida, 2004 – Ateneo de Sevilla Poetry Award) and Nostalgia de Odiseo (Vandalia, 2012); the books of short stories Amores patológicos (Ediciones B, 1998), El zoo sentimental (Alfaguara, 2000) and Ocho centímetros (Páginas de Espuma, 2015); and the novel El alfabeto de los pájaros (Seix Barral, 2011 -short-listed for the Troa Award to the Best Fiction Book with Values).

Her latest published work of poetry is La luz de la dinamo (Vandalia, 2017 – VII Iberoamerican Prize of Poetry Hermanos Machado ).

Her latest work of fiction is the novel Todo arde (Alfaguara, 2020) and now she comes back to non fiction with the essay La impostora (Páginas de Espuma, 2022).