Laura Fernández (Terrassa, 1981) is the author of six novels: Welcome to Welcome (Elipsis 2008 / Literatura Random House, 2019), Wendolin Kramer (Seix Barral, 2011), The Zombie Girl (Seix Barral, 2013), The Grossman Show (Aristas Martínez, 2013), Connerland (Literatura Random House, 2017), and Mrs. Potter Isn't Exactly Santa Claus (Literatura Random House, 2021). This last novel, her latest, was awarded the 2021 Ojo Crítico Prize for Narrative, the 2021 Finestres Prize for Narrative in Spanish, the Bookstores Recommend Prize for Best Fiction Book of 2021, and the Kelvin 505 Prize, as well as a Special Mention from the Ciutat de Barcelona Awards. Her work has been translated into French, Italian, English, and Japanese, and her short stories have been included in numerous anthologies, finally collected in a volume of selected stories titled Ladies, Gentlemen, and Planets ( Random , 2023). Her most recent work is a short essay on the world as a fantastical place, a mysterious chronicle from the even more mysterious Loch Ness, titled There's a Monster in the Lake (Debate, 2024). Her stories have the punch of a Douglas Adams who had read too much Stella Gibbons, and the ambition of a complex world apart of a Thomas Pynchon who was a fan of Stephen King. She is also a journalist and literary and music critic, and a passionate interviewer of writers. She currently writes mainly for El País, although she has contributed to countless publications in the past. She also worked in a video store and played in a band. She has two children and a huge collection of Philip K. Dick books.