Silvia Renée Arias was born in Tres Arroyos, a province of Buenos Aires,
in 1963, and in 1984 moved to Buenos Aires, where she currently resides, to
study journalism. She developed her journalistic skills in Editorial Perfil and
has been a collaborator in various cultural publications in Argentina and
abroad. In June of 1998 she published her first book, Bioy en privado (Bioy in
Private), which gathered her conversations with Adolfo Bioy Casares throughout
five years. A member of the literary workshop of Abelardo Castillo, she is
currently working on a book of short stories and on her first novel.