Vanessa Montfort is a novelist and playwright with a degree in Information Sciences, considered one of the leading international voices in contemporary Spanish literature.

As a novelist, she has published El ingrediente secreto (XI Ateneo Joven de Sevilla Award, 2006); Mitología de Nueva York (XI Ateneo de Sevilla Award, 2010); La leyenda de la isla sin voz (International Ciudad de Zaragoza Award for Best Historical Novel, Plaza y Janés, 2014); and Mujeres que compran flores (Plaza y Janés, 2016), which has had 29 editions in Spain, achieved great success in Italy and Latin America, and whose rights have been sold to over 15 countries, including France, Portugal, Germany, Norway, South Korea, and Bulgaria. She has also published El sueño de la crisálida (Plaza y Janés, 2019) and La mujer sin nombre (Plaza y Janés), where she revives the writer María Lejárraga. This novel, along with Firmado Lejárraga, the play that preceded it, has received critical acclaim and culminated in her participation in the TVE documentary María Lejárraga: A las mujeres de España, directed by Laura Hojman.

Her varied theatrical work ranges from documentary theater to radio and musical theater. Notable works include Flashback, La cortesía de los ciegos, and Tierra de tiza, written for the Royal Court Theatre in London; a free adaptation of La Regenta (Teatros del Canal, 2012); El galgo (Teatro Anfitrione in Rome, with multiple translations); Sirena negra, adapted into a film by Elio Quiroga (Sitges Festival, 2015); El hogar del monstruo (CDN, 2016); and Firmado Lejárraga (CDN, 2019, finalist for the 2020 Max Awards for Best Playwriting). In 2022, she premiered three productions: El síndrome del copiloto (Festival de Málaga and Teatros del Canal, Madrid); Saúl, a radio theater medium-length feature for the BBC as part of the One Five Seven Years series; and La Toffana (International Classical Theater Festival of Almagro, 2022 / Teatro La Abadía, Madrid, 2022).

As a producer, she co-founded BEMYBABYFILMS in 2016 with director Miguel Ángel Lamata, with whom she produced the feature film Nuestros Amantes (2016) and the documentary Héroes, Silencio y Rock & Roll (premiered on Netflix, nominated for the Goya Awards for Best Documentary).

The theatricality of her dialogues, her lyricism, the humanization of cities and their conflicts, and her ability to reflect contemporary issues with a touch of the extraordinary make her novels an emotional rollercoaster starring unforgettable characters.