Sara Barquinero (Zaragoza, 1994) holds a PhD in Philosophy and is the bestselling author of Los escorpiones (Lumen, 2024). In 2018 she was awarded a creative grant at the Residencia de Estudiantes in Madrid, where she wrote her nouvelle Terminal (Milenio, 2020).

In 2016 she received the Universal Values Essay Prize from the Unir Foundation, the Virginia Woolf Prize for short stories in English in 2017, the IAJ Prize for artistic and technological creation in the literature category in 2018, the Voces Nuevas Prize for poetry from Editorial Torremozas in 2019 and has been considered a revelation author of Spanish literature in 2021 by Woman magazine.

She has published the novels Estaré sola y sin fiesta (Lumen, 2021), and Los Escorpiones (Lumen, 2024) a visionary novel that became one of the best novels of the year. After her great success, her latest published novel is La chica más lista que conozco (Lumen, 2026), that is among the most expected titles this year.