Lorena Salazar Masso

She is a publicist and writer, with a master's degree in narrative from the Madrid School of Writers. This Wound Full of Fish, her first novel has been translated into twelve languages. Maldeniña, her second novel, was published in Colombia, Spain and Argentina. She has published other texts in different journals:  Julia Escondida y otras mujeres, El malpensante; Hermano mayor, Gaceta; Bella a las once, La Maleta maleta de Portbou. El malpensante; Hermano mayor, Gaceta; Bella a las once, La; Niñas conejo, Casapaís; Missy y Huevos al desayuno, La Rompedora. She teaches at the School of Writers in Madrid. She works and writes from Medellín.

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Latin America Viva

Elisenda Solsona

Invitado de Honor

Elisenda Solsona (Olesa de Montserrat, 1984) is a writer and secondary school teacher. She holds undergraduate degrees in humanities, from Pompeu Fabra University (UPF), and audiovisual communication, from the University of Barcelona (UB). She also studied for the Master’s in Writing for Television and Cinema at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), and has taken several writing courses at the Obrador de la Sala Beckett and the Ateneu Barcelonès School of Writing. She has published Cirurgies (Surgeries) (Voliana Edicions, 2016), Satèl·lits (Satellites) (Males Herbes, 2019) – which won the 2020 Imperdible Prize for Best Fantasy Book in Catalan and the 2020 Ictineu Prize for Best Anthology and Best Short Story in Catalan – and Mammalia (Males Herbes, 2024), which was shortlisted for the 2025 Òmnium Prize for Best Novel in Catalan and won the Ictineu Prize for Best Fantasy Novel in Catalan. She has contributed to the anthology Autòctones (Natives) (Comanegra, 2023) and to The Valancourt Book of World Horror Stories (Valancourt, 2020) with the short story ‘Mechanisms’ (translated by Mara Faye Lethem from ‘Engranatges’, originally published in Satèl·lits).

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Unique motherhoods
The search for identity
Maps of a world yet to come: narratives of speculative fiction

Bernardita Bravo Pelizzola

(Santiago, Chile, 1980)

Bernardita Bravo Pelizzola published Estampida (Editorial Cuneta, 2018), which was the winner of the Santiago Municipal Literature Prize in the short story category; the novel No reinas (Alfaguara, 2022) and Voraz (La Pollera Ediciones, 2024). She coordinates cultural management programs and libraries in schools and foundations.

Begoña Gómez Urzaiz

Invitado de Honor

Begoña Gómez Urzaiz (Tarragona, 1980) is a Barcelona-based journalist and writer. She writes regularly for La Vanguardia, co-hosts the podcast Amiga, date cuenta on Radio Primavera Sound and is a regular contributor to the programme Vostè primer on RAC1. Her bylines have appeared in publications such as El País, Vogue and Vanity Fair, and she has taught in the Master’s in Literary Journalism at the UAB. She edited and wrote the foreword to the collectively authored volume Neorrancios. Contra los peligros de la nostalgia (Neorrancios. On the Dangers of Nostalgia). The Abandoners: Of Mothers and Monsters is her first book. It has been translated into English, French, German, Portuguese and Polish and was published by Borough Press in the UK and Ireland, Norton in the US, Aufbau Verlag in Germany, Zahar in Brazil, Karakter in Poland and Stock in France.

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Tribute to Montserrat Roig +. Words in struggle
Unique motherhoods
Pódcast: Amiga date cuenta (Radio Primavera Sound)
Pódcast: Amiga date cuenta. (Radio Primavera sound)
Literature by the ear