Teresa Benéitez

She was born in Barcelona in 1966, but at the age of six moved with her family to Bilbao, where she has lived ever since. She has a degree in Spanish, a Masters in Journalism and Postgraduate qualification in Digital Publishing. As a journalist she has worked for a range of written media (El Correo, El Sol, El País Semanal...) but most of her career has been spent in television. Since 2000 she has taught on the El Correo/UPV-EHU Masters in Journalism. In 2017 she founded A Fin De Cuentos, an independent publishing house dedicated to writing for children and young people and wrote her first book, The Adventures and Misadventures of Foods that Changed the World, winning the first Premio Iberoamericano al Mejor Libro Informativo para Niños, for a children's non-fiction book.