Mauricio Montiel FigueirasMauricio Montiel Figueiras is a writer of prose fiction
and essays, as well as a poet, translator, editor, and film and
literary critic. He is the author of fifteen books in different genres.
His work has been published i magazines and newspapers in Argentina,
Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Italy, Peru, Spain, the United Kingdom,
and the United States. He has been Resident Writer for the Cheltenham
Festival of Literature in England (2003) and The Bellagio Study and
Conference Center in Italy (2008). In 2012 he was appointed Resident
Writer for the prestigious Hawthornden Retreat for Writers in Scotland.
In 2020 he was selected artist in residence for the Saari Residence in
Finland. Since 1995 he lives and works in Mexico City. Read More Read Less