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Beatriz Actis was born in 1961 in Sunchales (Santa Fe) and lives in Rosario. She is a professor of literature at the UNL (National University of La Plata) and the author of Crosses Close the Fields, The Fugitive Years, and The Night Poets (novels); Lost Travelers, Lisbon, and Variation on the Coastline (short stories).

She has published more than thirty books of children's literature, including Around the Bonfires, When Summer Goes Away, and Julian (young adult novels); Strange Journey to Frontera la Vieja (children's novels) and Mermaid's Tears (children's novels); Mystery in the Cemetery and To Cheer Up the Postman (short stories); The Imaginary Sheep, and Is It Still Raining? (poetry).

She has won, among others, the National Endowment for the Arts awards (2nd Prize in short stories, 1999, and 3rd Prize in novels, 2011); She was a finalist for the Emecé and Letra Sur novel awards (both in 2008); for short stories, she won the 1st Luis de Tejeda Municipal Prize of Córdoba (2005) and the 1st City of Rosario Prize (2011), and for novels, she won the 1st Rejadorada Prize (Valladolid, Spain, 2006). She was a FNA scholarship holder (2004 and 2022).

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In children's and young adult literature, she won the La Movida - Colihue Novel Award (1999) and was recognized with the ALIJA Award - Argentine Children's and Young Adult Literature Association, National Section of IBBY (2005). She was included in the Anthology of Argentine Children's Stories presented at the Frankfurt Book Fair (2010), and her short story Fábula was adapted by Claudio Hochman and premiered in Spain by the Teloncillo Theater Company (2020).

She has published in Argentina, Mexico, and Spain. She participates in book fairs and conferences in various Latin American countries.