Juana Gallego Ayala has been a tenured professor of the Autonomous University of Barcelona since 1989. Born in Arriate (Malaga), she knows what she’s talking about when it comes to the harshness of the countryside, the marginal outlying slums, and the feminist atmosphere of the 1980s. Based in Barcelona since 1976, her academic interests have focused on gender studies and communication. She has published essays including Women of Paper (1990), If You Leave I’ll Kill You (2009), Eve Returns the Rib (2010), Whores on Film. One Hundred Years of Prostitution in the Cinema (2012), From Queens to Citizens. Communication Media: Engine of or Hindrance to Equality? (2013) and Social Journalism (2014).

In 2001 she won the Mass Communications prize organized by the Catalan Audiovisual Council, for the work published as Inside the Press (2002). Her fiction writings include the book of short stories Sunday Neurosis (1986) which won the 1985 Clara Campoamor prize.

Since then she has been planning to write a novel: The Woman Who Resembled God is the result.
A short newspaper piece from 1990 about a women murdered by her husband is the starting point of a story about a Spanish family over the last hundred years, which bears witness to the changes they lived through and what remained unchanged.