Luis Roso (Moraleja, Cáceres, 1988) holds degrees in Hispanic Philology from the University of Salamanca and in English Philology from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He is also the curator of the Gata Negra crime fiction festival, held every summer in the Sierra de Gata (Extremadura).

Among his accolades are the Ciutat de Vila-real Narrative Prize for Durante la nevada (2020) and the Tuber Melanosporum Prize for Best Debut Crime Novel (2016) for Aguacero, his first novel, published in 2023 by Alrevés.

He has also published Todos los demonios (2021), El crimen de Malladas: Por vuestra boca muerta (2022), nominated for the Rodolfo Walsh Prize at the Gijón Crime Fiction Festival and selected among the best crime novels of the year by El País, as well as Primavera cruel (reissue, 2025) and Leyenda de sangre (2025), all with the publisher Alrevés.

His latest work of non-fiction is Puerto Hurraco: El espectáculo del horror (Ediciones B).