Virginia Mendoza (1987) was born and raised in La Mancha (Spain). She graduated in Journalism and Social and Cultural Anthropology from the Miguel Hernández University in Elche. For years she has been a freelance journalist and has written for various media outlets in Spain and Latin America. After living in dry Spain, humid Spain, semi-desert Spain and Armenia (in the Caucasus), she currently resides in a town in Teruel that is always in need of water, where she continues her education in Prehistoric Anthropology and writes about Anthropology for Muy Interesante. She has published books on roots and uprooting in which she fuses narrative journalism and rural anthropology, such as Quién te cerrará los ojos (Libros del KO, 2017), Heridas del viento (La línea del horizonte, 2018, soon to be published in Armenian) and Detendrán mi río (Libros del KO, 2021), a transmedia project on people displaced by the construction of dams in Spain that continues with an online map-report. She also wrote books on Jane Goodall and Alexandra David-Néel for RBA’s Grandes Mujeres collection. She is co-author of Juegos reunidos rurales, illustrated by Narcís RE (Temas de hoy, 2022). Her latest book, La sed, will soon be translated into English, German, Italian, Portuguese and Dutch. In 2019 she won the Manuel Iradier Prize for Communication, awarded by the La Exploradora Geographic Society.