Publisher with a career spanning thirty years, first in Argentina and then in Spain. María is Literary Director at Alfaguara, Lumen and Reservoir Books, with the Penguin Random House group, and has discovered literary phenomena like Lucia Berlin's A Manual For Cleaning Women, Joël Dicker's The Truth About The Harry Quebert Affair, Karina Sainz Borgo’s It Would Be Night In Caracas, Carmen Mola’s La novia gitana [The Gypsy Bride] and Santiago Diaz's El buen padre [The Good Father].

Virginia Feito's Mrs March is her latest discovery, along with the literary débuts of Laura Ferrero, Luna Miguel, Sara Barquinero and Sara Torres.

In 2013, she created the Alfaguara Negra collection of noir, featuring Pierre Lemaitre, Benjamin Black/John Banville, Susana Martín Gijón and Carmen Mola.

She has published Lara Moreno, Joyce Carol Oates, Ottessa Moshfegh, Rebecca Solnit, David Foenkinos, Hanya Yanagihara and Elena Ferrante, among others.She has worked as a journalist and translator and is also a writer herself.

Her work has been translated into several languages, including the short story collections La felicidad de las mujeres [The Happiness Of Women] (National Arts Fund Prize) and Un hombre bueno [A Good Man] (Cortes de Cádiz Prize) and the novels La verdad según Virginia [The Truth According to Virginia] and La mujer de Isla Negra [The Woman From Black Island].