Marta Sanz (Madrid, 1967) is a writer and holds a PhD in philology. In 2015, she won the Herralde novel Prize for Farándula (Anagrama, 2015). Previously she had published El frío (Debate, 1995 / Caballo de Troya 2012); Lenguas muertas (Debate, 1997); Los mejores tiempos (Debate, 2001), El Ojo Crítico Prize; Animales domésticos (Destino, 2003); Susana y los viejos (Destino, 2006), runner-up for the Nadal Prize; La lección de anatomía (RBA 2008 / revised and expanded: Anagrama, 2014); Black, black, black (Anagrama, 2010); Un buen detective no se casa jamás (Anagrama, 2012); Amour fou (Bravura Books, 2013) and Daniela Astor y la caja negra (Anagrama, 2013), Tigre Juan, Cálamo and Estado Crítico Awards. His latest novel is Clavícula (Anagrama, 2017).

Sanz won the Mario Vargas Llosa NH Prize for Short Stories in 2006 with the tale Regalos, has published Metalingüísticos y sentimentales: antología de la poesía española (1966-2000), and 50 poetas hacia el nuevo siglo (Biblioteca Nueva, 2007). As a poet, she has published Perra mentirosa/Hardcore (Bartleby, 2010), Vintage (Bartleby, 2013), Cíngulo y estrella. Cancionero (Bartleby, 2015), and La vida secreta de los gatos (illustrated by Ana Juan, 2020), works that were later collected and expanded in Corpórea. Poesía 2010–2022 (La Bella Varsovia, 2022). Amarilla (La Bella Varsovia, 2025) is her most recent poetic work, focused on the body, the passage of time, and intimacy.