Raquel Castro (Mexico City) is a writer, scriptwriter, professor and cultural promotor. She won the Gran Angular Young Adult Literature Prize, and has twice won the National Journalism Award as part of the team of the program Diálogos en confianza from OnceTV. She is the author of the novels Ojos llenos de sombra (SM/CONACULTA, 2012), Lejos de casa (El Arca Editorial, 2013), Exiliados (El Arca Editorial, 2014) & Dark Doll (Ediciones B, 2014). She writes about children's books in La Jornada Aguascalientes, the magazine Lee+ and at her own blog www.raxxie.com.