Carla Gracia (Barcelona, 1980) has a degree in Communication Sciences from the Universitat Ramon Llull, a postgraduate degree in Conflict Management and Resolution and an international MBA. After living in France, England and the US, she embarked on an adventure travelling around the world. Over the course of this journey she discovered her vocation for writing. Since then she has published several books of essays. In 2014 her first novel, Siete días de Gracia [Seven Days of Grace], was published and translated into Italian and Polish. For this work she received the Alghero Donna prize for literature and journalism in the international section of the Rome Book Fair. She is currently a professor in writing at the Laboratori de Lletres, an associate professor at the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya (UIC), and a doctoral candidate in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University (England).