Marta Jiménez Serrano (Madrid, 1990) has a bachelor’s 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 second in the 2020 Adonáis Prize. She subsequently published the novel Los nombres propios (2021), which was a finalist for the Premier Roman de Chambéry Prize and was selected by El Cultural as one of the best debuts of the year. Her short story collection No todo el mundo (2023) won the 2023 Nollegiu Prize and was a finalist for the Madrid Bookstores Prize and Vanity Fair’s Open Bank Literature Prize, in addition to 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 received a residency grant from the Cité des Arts (Paris). Her fiction has been translated into Italian. She has worked as a columnist for La Lectura (El Mundo) and has contributed to the television programme Ovejas eléctricas (TVE). She currently hosts Puro cuento, Carne Cruda’s literary section. She lives in Madrid, where she teaches creative writing. Oxígeno (Alfaguara, 2026) is her latest book.