Claudia Ulloa was born in Lima in 1979 and studied tourism in her native Peru before studying Spanish at the University of Tromsø. His publications include the short story collections The Fish Who Learned to Walk and Little Bird, as well as Seventh Early Morning, based on the weblog of the same name. In 2017, she was included in the Bogotá39 list, which highlights the most promising young writers in Latin America.
The author lives in Bodø, in northern Norway, where she also teaches Spanish and Norwegian for immigrants.