Mercedes Abad (born 1961, in Barcelona, Spain) is a Spanish journalist and short story writer.
[1][2] She graduated in Journalism from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona after studying for her baccalaureate at the Liceu Francès.
Following several incursions into the world of cinema and theatre, in 1986 she won the Premio La sonrisa vertical, a prize for erotic narrative with her book of short stories Ligeros libertinajes sabáticos.
Furthermore, she is the author of several plays and of various adaptations, including XXX, for the company La Fura dels Baus.
Her short story Pasión defenestrante (Uncontrolled Passion) was included in Rainy Days - Días de lluvia: Short Stories by Contemporary Spanish Women Writers, an anthology edited by Montserrat Lunati, together with a translation into English.