Gema Bonnín was born in Valencia in 1994, and later moved to Mallorca. In 2012 she published her first novel, The Lady and the Dragon (Destino), and some months later went to live in Qatar. Since then, she has travelled around many Asian countries including China, Singapore, Sri Lanka and Japan. In 2015, her passion for literature and history led her to take part in a research programme on the legend of King Arthur at the University of Exeter, UK. She is currently studying English Philology at Madrid Complutense University. Red Sand (Nocturna 2016) is the first of two novels whose conclusion will be published in 2017.