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Cristina Jurado is a seasoned science fiction, fantasy, and horror author, editor, and translator with 20+ years of experience. She has won numerous awards, including the 2020 Best European Promoter by the European Science Fiction Society (ESFS) and the 2019 Best Novel Ignotus Award (Spain's Hugo) for "Bionautas". She has edited several anthologies and has been a guest editor for Apex Magazine. She holds a Master's degree in Rhetoric from Northwestern University and a Bachelor's degree in Advertising & Public Relations from the Universidad de Sevilla.

Experience

  • Self-employed
    • Dubai, United Arab Emirates
    • Author
      • May 2024 - Present
      • Dubai, United Arab Emirates
  • self-emplyed
    • Dubai, United Arab Emirates
    • Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Author, Editor and Translator (EN-ES)
      • 2012 - Present
      • Dubai, United Arab Emirates

      Author of science fiction, fantasy, and horror stories and novelsWinner of 2020 Best European Promoter by the European Science Fiction Society (ESFS)Winner of Ignotus 2020 Best Related Book Award for "Infiltradas"Shorlisted at the 2020 Best Best Magazine Ignotus Award for SuperSonic Win...

    • Juror at "42, Festival of Fantastic Genres of Barcelona"
      • Jan 2020 - Nov 2023
      • Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
    • Editor-In-Chief
      • Jan 2015 - Nov 2023
      • UAE

      SuperSonic is the first semi-pro science fiction, fantasy and horror magazine in the Spanish speaking market that includes fiction and non fiction both in Spanish and English.It has won the 2019, 2018 and 2017 Ignotus Award (Spain's Hugos) for Best Magazine.SuperSonic won the ESFS Spirit of D...

    • Artículo
      • May 2023 - May 2023

      Artículo sobre el terror en escenarios diurnos, sobre los terrores que acechan a plena luz del día

  • Biblioteca Digital de Bogotá
    • Bogotá, Capital District, Colombia
    • Exposición «Tantos mañanas como sean posible»s
      • Apr 2023 - Apr 2023
      • Bogotá, Capital District, Colombia

      MasterClass «Los mañanas que nos quedan»: Dentro de la ciencia ficción el futuro se ha contado de distintas formas. Los hilos que tejen esta incógnita sostienen la exposición a la que estás a punto de entrar. ¿Cuántos mañanas caben en este recorrido? ¿Cuántos mañanas son versiones del ayer? Disfr...

  • Sui Generis Madrid
    • Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
    • Cuento en la exposición «Legendaria: mitos contados e ilustrados»
      • Dec 2022 - Apr 2023
      • Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain

      Con un formato expositivo doble por vitrina, que incluye un relato y una ilustración inspirados en un mismo mito, la exposición «Legendaria» se abre como un libro que muestra y reivindica la magia de nuestra mitología a sus visitantes. Una mirada única a estas historias fascinantes, a través de l...

    • Program Assistant
      • Sep 2022 - Feb 2023

      Designing Virtual Activities, from panels, to discussions and presentations, for the Virtual Track of Boskone 2023

    • Author
      • Sep 2022 - Sep 2022
      • Denmark
  • Constelación magazine
    • United Arab Emirates
    • Contributor, proofreader
      • Sep 2020 - Sep 2022
      • United Arab Emirates
    • Author
      • Aug 2022 - Aug 2022

      Relato "Prozaico"

    • Author
      • Jul 2022 - Jul 2022
      • Spain

      My story "Embracing the movement" is included in this collection of some of the most interesting female & non-binary authors

    • Author
      • May 2022 - May 2022
      • Spain

      First collection of science fiction, fantasy and horror stories in Spanish

    • Editor
      • Jul 2021 - Jul 2021
  • Literup
    • Spain
    • Author
      • May 2021 - May 2021
      • Spain

      Del Naranja al Azul/ Bionautas is a flip-book offering 2 stories about the arrival of the Bionauts on Earth

    • International Editor
      • Jan 2018 - Apr 2019

      International editor for fiction

    • Editor of "Infiltradas"
      • Mar 2018 - Mar 2019

      Editor of "Infiltradas", a collection of essays about science fiction, fantasy and horror from a feminist perspective

    • Co Editor of The Apex Book of World SF #5
      • Nov 2017 - Sep 2018

      Co-editor of The Apex Book of World SF #5 by Apex Publishing

    • Editor of "WhiteStar"
      • Jan 2016 - Dec 2016

      Editor of an anthology of fantastic stories based on David Bowie's universe. All profits will go to Spain's Cancer association

    • Editor of "Alucinadas"/"Spanish Women of Wonder"
      • Apr 2014 - Nov 2016

      Editor de la primera antología de relatos de ciencia ficción escritos por mujeres en español: "Alucinadas". Esta antología fue nominada a los premios Ignotus (concedidos por la Asociación Española de Fantasía, Ciencia Ficción y Terror) y uno de sus relatos -"Casas Rojas" de Nieves Delgado- obtuvo el premio al mejor relato.Editor of the first anthology of science fiction short stories written by women in Spanish. This books was nominated to the Ignotus Awards by the Spanish Fantasy, Science Fiction and Horror Association. One of its stories -"Red Houses" by Nieves Delgado- won de Best Short Story Award.

    • Guest editor
      • Sep 2015 - Sep 2015

      She edited Apex Magazine #76, a special international SF themed issue featuring Liu Cixin, Tade Thompson, Kuzhali Manickavel, Isabel Yap, Marian Womack, Charles Tan, Anne Carly Abad, Christina Sng, Zen Cho, and Saad Z. Hossain.Her article "The Invention of Spanish Speculative Fiction" i...

    • Freelance translator
      • 2001 - 2004
    • Account Coordinator
      • 1999 - 2001
    • Marketing Assistant
      • Jan 1999 - Jun 1999
    • Advertising Account Coordinator
      • 1997 - 1998

Education

  • 1996 - 1997
    Northwestern University
  • 1991 - 1996
    Universidad de Sevilla

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