Rosa María Beltrán Álvarez (born Mexico City, 15 March 1960[1][2]) is a Mexican novelist, short story writer, essayist, and translator.

She has coordinated and led graduate-level classes in Comparative Literature at the UNAM's Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, and she served as director of the Casa Universitario del Libro.

As part of her admission speech to the Academia Mexicana de la Lengua in 2014, she discussed the ongoing relevance of the novel Cartucho, by Nellie Campobello, and the author's astute reflections on the state of contemporary Mexico.

In 2021, she was invited by the Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán to deliver the keynote address “Pandemia, arte y literatura” in commemoration of this institution's 75-year anniversary.

[3] She is also the author of the short story collections Amores que matan (1996) and Cuentos darwinianos (Universidad de Guadalajara 2020) and of the book-length essay Verdades virtuales (Debolsillo 2019).

[11][12] Her novel Radicales libres (Penguin Random House, 2021) sold out two months after its publication in 2021 and is forthcoming in an English translation by Robin Myers to be co-published by Hablemos, escritoras and Katakana Editores.

In 2009, she started the festival Fiesta del Libro y la Rosa, which has been held continuously since its inauguration, including two virtual editions in 2020 and 2021 with the participation of authors from all over the world.