Fernanda Tras is a distinguished Uruguayan author and translator born in 1976. Her literary works encompass a range of novels such as La Azotea (The Rooftop), La ciudad invencible (The Invincible City), and Mugre rosa (Pink Slime), alongside her short story collection No soñarás Flores and the chapbook El regreso.

Tras's contributions to literature extend beyond Uruguay, with her work featured in anthologies across Germany, Colombia, Peru, Spain, the United States, and the United Kingdom. Publications such as 20/40 and Palabras Errantes have helped to disseminate her writing internationally, which has been translated into multiple languages including German, French, Hebrew, English, and Italian. Her debut novel, La azotea, earned critical acclaim, securing a spot as one of the best books of the year by El País Cultural and receiving the third prize in the National Uruguayan Literature awards in 2002. Tras's accolades continued with the BankBoston Foundation Prize for National Culture in 2006.

A disciple and confidant of the Uruguayan literary figure Mario Levrero, Tras played a significant role in the inception of De los flexes terpines, a literary collection curated by Levrero that spotlighted fifteen emerging writers. Within this collection, she published her inaugural novella, Cuaderno para solo un ojo. In 2004, Tras's literary journey took her to France on the wings of a Unesco-Aschberg scholarship for writers, marking a five-year chapter of her life there. Her trajectory then led her to Buenos Aires in 2010, where she immersed herself in the world of translation, reading, and copyediting for various publishing houses. Tras further honed her craft by securing a scholarship for an MFA in creative writing at New York University in 2012.

Her project Mugre rosa was honored with the inaugural SEGIB-Eñe-Casa de Velázquez Prize and a coveted residency in Madrid in 2017. Tras currently resides in Bogotá, Colombia, where she has imparted her expertise at the Universidad Nacional's creative writing MFA program. In 2019, she joined the Universidad de los Andes as a writer-in-residence. Her novel Mugre rosa brought her further recognition with the national literature prize in 2020, the Premio Bartolomé Hidalgo in 2021, and the prestigious Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize.