Marina Perezagua (Sevilla, 1978) is a graduate of History of Art from the University of Seville and took a doctorate in Language and Literature in the United States. She has taught at the State University of New York (Stony Brook) and at New York University and has also worked at the Cervantes Institute in Lyon. She has published two books of short stories, "Criaturas abisales" and "Leche", and two novels, "Yoro" [Yoro] (Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize for Best Novel in Spanish by a Woman) and "Don Quijote de Manhattan" [Don Quixote of Manhattan]. She currently lives in New York.