She was born in 1987 in Madrid to a family from Cuenca. She graduated with a degree in political science from the Complutense University of Madrid and later gained a master's degree in sexology from the University of Alcalá.[1][2]
In 2012, she published The Book of Cruelty (El libro de la cruelidad), a book of poems; in 2015 she released The Songs of the Sleepers (Las canciones de los durmientes). In 2018, she won the José Ángel Valente Faculty Poetry Prize for her work Cineraria.[2][3]
In 2020, she published the essay Utopia Is Not an Island (Utopía no es una isla),[4] which reflects on the relationship between the way a society imagines the future and the cultural products that it consumes.[5][6]
In 2021, she published Carcoma (translated into English as Woodworm by Sophie Hughes and Annie McDermott in 2024).[7] This novel examines themes of gender-based and class-based violence through horror, set in the time of the Spanish Civil War.[8] The work was a finalist for Semana Negra de Gijón's Celsius Prize for Spanish-language science fiction and fantasy and won her an award as the best new Spanish-language author of the year at Festival 42 in 2022.[9]
She has also written for periodicals such as elDiario.es, Público, and El Salto.[10][11][12] She is the co-director of Antipersona, an independent publisher.[13]