She has written numerous books for children and young adults in the Spanish language, and her work has been widely translated.

She has received multiple awards for her work, including the Premio Academia of the Academia Chilena de la Lengua, and the Literary Prize of the City of Santiago, and her books for children have been published in several countries, including Spain, Argentina, Colombia, Brazil, Mexico, Italy and the United States, in addition to Chile.

[1] In 2013, Ferrada also published Notas al margen, which won the Marta Brunet Prize and the Colibrí Medal, from IBBY Chile.

[5] Ferrada published Kramp (How to Order the Universe, translated into English by Elizabeth Bryer in 2021), a novel for adults, in 2017.

[7] Her next novel for adults, 2021's El hombre del cartel ("Billboard Man"), was published in English translation as How to Turn Into a Bird In 2022.