Layla Martínez (Madrid, 1987)[1] is a Spanish writer and columnist known for her horror novel Woodworm, as well as the essay Utopia Is Not an Island.
In 2018, she won the José Ángel Valente Faculty Poetry Prize for her work Cineraria.
[2][3] In 2020, she published the essay Utopia Is Not an Island (Utopía no es una isla),[4] which reflects on the relationship between the way a society imagines the future and the cultural products that it consumes.
[5][6] In 2021, she published Carcoma (translated into English as Woodworm by Sophie Hughes and Annie McDermott in 2024).
[7] This novel examines themes of gender-based and class-based violence through horror, set in the time of the Spanish Civil War.