Gemma Solsona Asensio, born in Barcelona in 1977, holds an undergraduate degree in audiovisual communication and works in marketing. A creative writing teacher, she organises workshops and book clubs, contributes to Zenda magazine, and hosts Un desván propio at Gigamesh bookshop. She has coordinated anthologies such as Donde las hadas no se aventuran [Where Fairies Don’t Dare Go], Ars Moriendi, Un mundo en la chistera [A World in a Magician’s Hat] and the Shirley Jackson-inspired Todavía vivimos en el castillo [We Still Live in the Castle] (Apache). She has published Valguamar, cuentos de lugares, amores y difuntos [Valguamar: Tales of Places, Loves and the Dead] (with Tebu Guerra), Maullidos [Howls], Casa volada [Blown-Apart House], Blancogramas [Whitegrams], Brujas Blancas, Hadas Negras [White Witches, Black Fairies] and Lo que se esconde al final de la escalera [What’s Hiding at the Bottom of the Stairs] (Eolas). In 2025, she coordinated Las otras hadas [The Other Fairies], an essay collection on conteuses.

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