Cristina Jurado is a bilingual author of science fiction, fantasy, horror and other hybrid genres, as well as editor, translator and sf promoter. In 2019 she became the first female author to win the Best Novel Ignotus Award (Spain's Hugo) for Bionautas. Her recent fiction in English includes the translation of Bionautas (Twine), and many stories in various venues, such as Strange Horizons, Clarkesworld and Apex Magazine, as well as The Best of World SF by Head of Zeus. Her works have been translated into Italian, Romanian, Chinese and Japanese. As editor she has published several books: Alucinadas, the first anthology of sf short stories written by women in Spanish (translated into English as Spanish Women of Wonder); Infiltradas, the first anthology in Peninsular Spain of feminist sf articles, which won the Best Non-Fiction Book Ignotus Award in 2020; and Todos los demás planetas, an sf anthology focused on inclusive language. In 2015 Cristina founded SuperSonic, winner of three Best Magazine Ignotus Awards and honoured by the European Science Fiction association (ESFS) as Best Zine in 2016 and Best Magazine in 2017. She has worked as international editor for Apex Magazine and has co-edited, with Lavie Tidhar, The Apex Book of World SF #5, focused on speculative fiction around the world. She currently works as co-editor for Futura House, a blog featuring stories from Hispanic authors in English. Distinguished as Europe's Best SF Promoter Award in 2020, she has worked as editor and contributor for Apex Magazine and Constelación magazine, and as Spanish slush reader for Clarkesworld.
