María Teresa Lebrero is a music graduate with a number of diplomas. Since 1966, she has taught at various levels, but particularly at the pre-school stage as a specialist and year-coordinator. She has been a conference speaker and given numerous professional development courses to the teaching staff of public and private institutions. She is presently involved with UNED in staff training.
Maria Zabay has a degree in Law from the University of Zaragoza. She began her career as a mercantile lawyer until she became a manager in an arts institution run by the local government of Aragon and the University of Zaragoza, where she also took charge of judicial advice on intellectual property. At this time she made “El Palacio de la Alegría” (“The Fun Palace”), an arts programme for TVE2 in Aragon in which she presented new publications, as well as working for other media organisations (Cadena Ser, Aragón Radio…).
María Zaragoza was born in Madrid in 1982, and has lived since she was seven in Campo de Criptana, Ciudad Real. She has been writing since a young age, taking part in school competitions, for which she received numerous prizes for her works such as 'La ninfa del bosque', 'Siete historias de amor imposible', 'Helena Destino', 'Cuentos humanos' and 'Querido desconocido'. At the age of sixteen she published a collection of stories 'Ensayos sobre un personaje incompleto' (Tau, 2000), and in 2007, her collection of short novels 'Realidades de humo' (Belacqva, 2007).
María-Milagros Rivera Garretas is Professor of Medieval History and one of the founders of the journal and of the Centro de Investigación en Estudios de las Mujeres Duoda at the University of Barcelona, which she directed between 1991 and 2001. She also contributed to found the Women’s Bookshop in Barcelona and the Entredós Foundation in Madrid.
Mariano Antolín Rato (Gijón, 1943) is one of the most innovative writers in contemporary Spanish literature. His first novel, Cuando 900 mil Mach aprox (At Aprox. 900 Thousand Mach) won the Nueva Crítica prize and his more recent novels, Fuga en espejo (Reflected Flight) and No se hable más (There's an End to It) were awarded the Fernando Quiñones (2002) and the Villa de Madrid (2006) prizes respectively. In 2009 he published Lobo viejo (Old Wolf), which also received enthusiastic attention from critics and the most demanding readers.