Karmele Jaio Eiguren (Vitoria-Gasteiz, March 19, 1970) is a Basque writer and journalist whose works have been translated into Catalan, German, Russian, Spanish, and English.

Karmele Jaio Eiguren was born in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain, in 1970.

[1] She graduated in Information Sciences in 1993–94 from the University of the Basque Country.

Her stories have been published in numerous anthologies and her works have been translated into Catalan, German, Russian, Spanish, and English.

Since July 2015, she has been a corresponding academic of Euskaltzaindia, the Royal Academy of the Basque Language.