Marta Jiménez Serrano holds a degree in Hispanic Philology and a master’s degree in Literary Studies and Modern Languages. Her first book, the poetry collection La edad ligera (2021), was awarded second prize in the 2020 Adonáis Prize. She subsequently published the novel Los nombres propios (2021), which was a finalist for the Festival du Premier Roman de Chambéry prize and was selected by El Cultural as one of the best debuts of the year. Her collection of short stories No todo el mundo (2023) won the 2023 Nollegiu Prize and was a finalist for the Madrid Booksellers’ Prize and the Openbank Prize for Literature by Vanity Fair, as well as being chosen as one of the books of the year by media outlets such as Babelia, Cadena Ser and RTVE. She has also contributed to the anthologies Querida Theresa (2022), El gran libro de los pájaros (2023) and Una navidad así (2024). In 2022, she was awarded a residency grant at the Cité internationale des arts (Paris). Her fiction has been translated into Italian. She has been a columnist for La Lectura (El Mundo) and a contributor to the television programme Ovejas eléctricas (TVE). She currently hosts Puro cuento, the literary programme on Carne Cruda. She lives in Madrid, where she teaches creative writing. Oxígeno (2026) is her latest book.