Claudia Carbonell was born in Cali, Colombia. She began writing short stories when she was seventeen years old. At nineteen, her work was already being published in a popular Ecuadorian newspaper called El Meridiano (The Meridian). She never stopped writing, and her life work, which is 13 years in the making, is compiled in an incredible nine-book fantasy series written for children and teens appropriately called, The Magical Series. This series contains eight novels and a book of short supplementary stories. The series is rich in the themes the author is most passionate about: ecology, fauna