Writer, poet and playwright. She teaches creative writing to children and adults and collaborates in various newspapers and cultural magazines in Argentina and Uruguay.

She is one of the most prestigious and recognised writers in the Argentinean publishing scene.

She has declared that she writes without any discipline but lashed by moments of creativity, which she undoubtedly knows how to use to her advantage. The proof of it is her vast literary production.

She was been awarded important prizes: magazine Cosecha Ñ, 2007; Prize Mario Vargas Llosa NH for short stories, 2005; Prize Clarín, 2003; Hucha de Oro, 2002; Prize of he National Fund for the Arts, 2000; First Prize House of América for Innovative writing, 200; Juan Rulfo, 1997.

As a writer of books for children and adolescents, she was awarded the Highly Recommended Prize by ALIJA. As a playwright, she got the Prize Argentores 2005; First Prize from the National Theatre Institute and the Prize National Fund for the Arts, 2001.

Her short stories are present in numerous national and international anthologies. In the last years, a few of her plays have been performed on stage.

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Works

Novels

Lucy. Chick Lit. Plaza & Janés 2010.
Album de Polaroids ( Polaroid Album), La Fábrica, Spain 2008
Delito Privado. Crónicas urbanas ( Private Crime . City Column) Marea, 2008
Un fragmento de la vida de Irene S. (A Snatch in the Life of Irene S.)  Colihue, 2004
Perdida en el momento (Lost Within the Instant). Clarín Prize 2003, Alfaguara 2004

Books of short stories:

Esta no es mi noche ( It isn’t my Night) Alfaguara, 2005.
La flor incandescente ( The Incandescent Flower) Editorial Sial, Spain, 2002
Rata paseandera (The wandering Rat), Bajo la luna nueva, 1998

Children’s literature

El príncipe Melocotón 2011
Boris Orbis y la Vieja de la Calle 24 2011
Amor Dragón( Dragon Love). A novel for children. Alfaguara, 2007
El intrépido Medio-Pollo( Half-Chick The Fearless) Norma, 2007
Bichos que vuelan (Creatures that Fly). Anthology of Latinamerican bird legends. Homosapiens, 2006
El rey Antol y el anillo deslumbrante ( King Antol and the Dazzling Ring) Story Ed. Estrada,2006.
Historia del Pollito belleza ( The Story of Beauty Chick) Juan Rulfo Prize 1997, Monte Ávila 1999.

Anthologies:

Pequeñas Resistencias (Resisting in the Small Scale. Eedited by Andrés Neuman, published by Páginas de Espuma, Spain 2005. Antología del cuento fantástico argentino contemporáneo (Contemporary Argentinean Anthology of Fantastical Short Stories). Edited by Alejandro Alonso. Foreword by Lucía Gálvez. Col. Página 12, 2004.
In the last few years some of her theatre plays have been put on stage.