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Betina González (Buenos Aires, 1972) has a doctorate degree in Latin American Literature from the University of Pittsburgh and a master in Creative Writing from the University of Texas El Paso. She is currently a professor at the University of Buenos Aires, where she works as a researcher in the area of New Media and Literature and where, among other subjects, she teaches Creative Writing and Semiotics of Contemporary Genres. She won the Clarín de Novela Prize for her first book in 2006. That same year, she was awarded the second prize of the Certamen Nacional de Libros de Cuentos, given by the Argentinean National Foundation for the Arts. Her essay La conspiración de la forma was recently awarded the Lozano Prize from the University of Pittsburgh and will be published by the International Institute of Latin American Literature.