Yaiza Berrocal Guevara (playwright, fiction writer, screenwriter; Spain) is the author of a novel, several plays and a screenplay. Her literary work includes Curling (2022), published in the UK in 2025 and forthcoming in Greek in 2026. She is currently working on her second novel, Las promesas. As a playwright, she received Spain’s Calderón de la Barca National Prize for La cadena del frío, later staged in Sala Beckett, Barcelona. Her other plays include Intenta viure sense mi, Ni temeré les feres, Ocho comedias y ocho entremeses nunca antes representadas (documentary theatre) and Flesh Market. 

She is also the screenwriter of the animated feature Black Butterflies, winner of the Goya Award for Best Animated Film, as well as the Gaudí, Forqué, Quirino, and Platino awards, and has written for prime-time television series. 

She has received grants and residencies from institutions including Barcelona Crea, Teatre Lliure, Fundación Antonio Gala, Spain Ministry of Culture and UNESCO, and is a member of the European CELA program for emerging writers as well as a numerary member of the Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias Cinematográficas de España. 

Her participation is made possible by the support of SPAIN arts & culture at the Cultural Office of the Embassy of Spain in Washington D.C., and the generous support of Hugh F. Culverhouse Jr. and other donations made to the International Writing Program.