Xulia Alonso Díaz (A Rúa, 1961) completed her secondary education in her native town and in 1979 began studying psychology in Santiago de Compostela. In Janurary 1981 she began working as an administrative assistant for Galicia's regional government, where she worked until 2008 when, for health reasons, she withdrew from the world of work. In those first few years of the 1980s, her discovery of the world of drugs and a three-year addiction to heroine (which she overcame in 1985) left an indelible mark that affected her future: HIV.
Xulio Ricardo Trigo (betanzos, 1959) is a novelist and translator from Portuguese. His publications include the novels "La desaparició d'Evelyn" (1995), "La mort salobre" (Premio Ciudad de Elche, 1998) and "Fabo" (Premio Joanot Martorell, 1999).
Yolanda Scheuber was born in Buenos Aires in 1953. In 1975 she earned a degree in Political Science by the University of Salvador and began her career as an official writer for the Government of the Province of La Pampa. In 1982 she moved to the Government of the Province of Salta, where she currently works.