Born in 1962, Inês Pedrosa earned a degree in communication sciences from the Universidade Nova de Lisboa before working in the press, on radio, and on television, earning several journalism awards and serving as director of the Casa Fernando Pessoa publishing house from 2008 to 2014. Previously, she was a columnist for the Portuguese national newspaper Expresso, for which her column was awarded the 2007 Prize for Parity for Citizenship and Gender Equality, and she is currently a columnist for Lisbon's weekly newspaper, Sol. Pedrosa has published eighteen books, including the prize-winning novels In Your Hands (winner of the 1997 Prémio Máxima de Literatura in Portugal), Eternity and Desire (finalist for the 2009 Portugal Telecom Award and the 2010 Prémio Correntes d'Escritas), and The Intimates (winner of the 2011 Prémio Máxima de Literatura). Her work has been published in Brazil, Spain, Italy, and Germany. In Your Hands is her English-language debut.