Edu Flores was born in Zaragoza in 1970. She studied graphic design and art history. She presently combines teaching at the Escuela Superior de Diseño de Aragón (ESDA) with illustration of children's books. The picture book El pájaro de las dos jaulas (The Bird of the Two Cages) was selected for the Bratislava biennial in 2015. Los zapatos de Fred Astaire y otras historias increíbles (Fred Astaire's Shoes and Other Incredible Stories) won the Golden Pinwuell Award in the category of best international children's picture book at the Shanghai Book Fair in November 2013. In 2015 she published La madre de Jack (Jack's Mother), which was awarded the bronze medal in the category of best illustrator in the Moonbeam Children´s Books Awards 2015 (USA).