Betina González is an Argentine fiction writer. She holds a PhD in Hispanic Literatures from the University of Pittsburgh and an MFA in Bilingual Creative Writing from the University of Texas at El Paso. She teaches Creative Writing at New York University in Buenos Aires and the University of Buenos Aires. She was awarded the Clarín Prize for Arte menor, and the Tusquets Award for Las poseídas. Her other books include the bestselling collection El amor es una catástrofe natural and América alucinada, her first work published in English as American Delirium.