Juana Libedinsky is an Argentine writer and journalist based in New York. A longtime columnist for La Nación in Argentina and cultural correspondent for El País in Uruguay, she has also written for publications including Vanity Fair, Condé Nast Traveler, ForbesWomen and La Vanguardia in Spain. She is the author of widely acclaimed books in Spanish.

Downhill, adapted from Cuesta Abajo--hailed by the press as "unputdownable"--is her first book in English. She is a graduate of NYU's Cultural Reporting and Criticism Program, where she was an Arthur L. Carter Fellow, and a former Wolfson Press Fellow at the University of Cambridge. She teaches cultural journalism at the Universidad San Pablo CEU in Madrid.