Félix J. Palma (Sanlúcar de Barrameda, 1968) is a writer, writing instructor, and literary coach. He has published four short story collections and seven novels, with his most well-known series being the Victorian Trilogy, which includes The Map of Time (winner of the 40th Ateneo de Sevilla Prize, 2008), The Map of the Sky (2012), and The Map of Chaos (2014). He has also written the noir novel The Monster’s Embrace (2019) and, in his role as a teacher, the writing manual Writing is for Madmen (2021). His latest novel is The Great Fairy Scam (2024).
His work has received numerous literary awards, has been translated into more than thirty languages, and has been a New York Times bestseller.