José María García Sánchez was born in 1964 in Santa Coloma de Gramanet. He completed his law degree at Barcelona's Autonomous University in 1987 and since then has worked as a lawyer. He works with different chambers and comanages the firm García Sánchez & Plaza Gómez. He regularly contributes articles to a legal magazine and occasionally writes literary essays on the website libreriodelaplata.com. His novel Makoko was a finalist in 2017 for the Orilla Negra International Award. Traffic is his third novel and the second to be published, and won the Orilla Negra International Award in 2018.