Elisa Ferrer (L’Alcúdia de Crespins, Valencia, 1983) has a degree in audiovisual communication from the University of Valencia, a diploma in film and television writing from the Madrid School of Cinema, and a master's in Spanish creative writing from The University of Iowa, where she was one of the production team for the magazine Iowa Literaria. She worked as a television script writer and film script analyst for the RTVE fiction department, and has published articles and poems in diverse literary magazines including the New York University Revista Temporales and the Contratiempo in Chicago. She is the author of the essay The Royal Tenenbaums in Wes Anderson (Secret Plan, 2014). The Wasp Season is her first novel.