[2][3] She completed her doctorate in Spanish philology at the Autonomous University of Madrid,[2][4] specializing in Latin American literature.
[6] Huertas worked as an editor at various publishing houses[6] and also taught creative writing at the Autonomous University of Madrid.
[3][8] She then published a short story collection called A tragos (1996) and continued writing fiction with a number of novels,[2] such as Una noche en Amalfi which was compared by RTVE to the works of Patricia Highsmith.
[9] Her last novel, El sótano, was published posthumously by Editorial Anagrama in 2023.
[3][10] Writing for El País, Carlos Zanón [es] called it a "beautiful testament",[3] while Anna María Iglesia [es] described it in El Mundo as a "wonderful invitation to reflect on the uncertainty of life and writing".