Camila Sosa Villada was born in 1982 in La Falda (Córdoba, Argentina). She is a writer, actress, and singer, and previously earned a living as a sex worker, street vendor and maid. Her first novel, The Queens of Sarmiento Park (Las Malas), won the Premio Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (Mexico), the Premio Finestres (Spain) and the Grand Prix de l'Héroïne Madame Figaro (France) and has been translated into more than twenty languages.