Leila Guerriero was born in Junín, Argentina, in 1967 and moved to Buenos Aires in 1984. She is one of Argentina's foremost journalists and writers, and has published articles in numerous newspapers and periodicals in South America, Spain and Italy, including El País, Vanity Fair and Rolling Stone. in 2010, Guerriero won the CEMEX-FNPI Award, the most prestigious journalism prize in Latin America. A Simple Story is her first full-length publication in English.
