Juan Soto Ivars (1985 in Águilas) is a Spanish novelist and columnist. He is the author of the novels Ajedrez para un detective novato (2013), Siberia (2012) and La conjetura de Perelman (2011). He co-edited the short story collection Mi madre es un pez (2011) with Sergi Bellver. He contributes regularly to Vice, Primera Línea, El Confidencial, Revista Tiempo, Ling and other magazines. For two years he was the director of the newsletter El Crítico created by . In 2011 he co-founded the literary movement .