Argentine writer and translator born in Buenos Aires on March 18, 1947. He graduated in Literature from the University of Buenos Aires in 1971. She was director for two decades of the children's literature collection "Los cuentos del Chiribitil", of the Latin American Publishing Center, also exercising writing, editing and translation work.

She is a founding member of the Association of Children's and Young People's Literature of Argentina and co-founder and co-director of the cultural magazine "La Mancha - Papeles de literatura infantil y juvenil" during its first two years. She won the Lazarillo Prize in 1980 and was the Argentine candidate for the Hans Christian Andersen International Prize in 1996, 1998 and 2000.

Graciela Montes is the author of more than seventy children's fiction titles, some of which have been translated into German, French, Portuguese, Greek and Catalan. She has also been a translator of important works such as those of Lewis Carroll, the stories of Perrault, etc.