Guadalupe Nettel is a renowned Mexican writer, born in 1973. She has published four novels, including The Body Where I Was Born (2011) and After the Winter (2014). She won the Premio de Narrativa Breve Ribera del Duero and the Premio Herralde literary awards.

Her works have been translated into 17 languages. Nettel has contributed to various prestigious publications such as Granta, The White Review, El País, The New York Times, La Repubblica, and La Stampa.

She holds a PhD in linguistic sciences from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. Nettel was recognized as one of the thirty-nine most important Latin American writers under the age of thirty-nine at the Bogotá Hay Festival in 2006.

She has lived in Montreal and Paris, and currently resides in Barcelona, where she works as a translator and conducts writing seminars and workshops on Potential Literature.