José Morella was born in Ibiza in 1972. He is the author of the novel La fatiga del vampiro (Bassarai, 2004) and the collection of poems Tambor de luz (Ediciones Osuna, 2001) and has translated the Brazilian writer Ferreira Gullar into Spanish (Murmullos, Bassarai, 2006). He has a degree in literary theory and comparative literature. He currently lives in Barcelona.