Eva Alcántara was born in Seville (Spain) and grew up in a small town in the Andalusian countryside. She graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Comparative Literature from the University of Granada and holds a Master’s degree in Pedagogy of Spanish Language and Literature from the University of Seville. She is currently pursuing her MA in Latin American and Iberian Literature at UNM and is a teaching assistant in Spanish. Her fields of interest are Baroque mysticism, literary philosophy on the notion of non-places in the 21st century, the Spanish Golden Age, and Ibero-American literature.