Alia Trabucco Zerán was born in Chile in 1983. She was awarded a Fulbright scholarship for a masters in creative writing at New York University, where she wrote her debut novel La Resta (The Remainder). La Resta won the prize for Best Unpublished Literary Work awarded by the Consejo Nacional del Libro de Chile, and was chosen by El País as one of its top ten debuts of 2015. She lives in London, where she is studying for a PhD at University College London.