María Pilar Jiménez Aleixandre (born 1947, in Madrid)[1] is a Spanish writer, translator and biologist.

She is a lecturer of Biology at the University of Santiago de Compostela,[1] where she has been teaching Environmental and Science Education since 1988.

She then published her first children's book A formiga coxa, and A expedición do Pacífico (Premio da Crítica Galega 1995).

She has translated the collection of poems Muller ceiba (1996) by Sandra Cisneros from English to Galician, as well as A Caza do Carbairán (1997) by Lewis Carroll and Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001) by J.K. Rowling.

Besides this, she has contributed to the culture and literature magazines Nó, Luzes de Galicia, CLIJ, Festa da Palabra Silenciada, Dorna and El Signo del Gorrión.