Roberto Echevarren. He was born and lives in Montevideo. He was a tenured professor of Ibero-American and comparative literature at the University of New York. He was a screenwriter, co-director and editor of the film Casino Atlántico (1989) which received several awards at festivals in the United States. Among his publications are the novel Ave roc (published in Uruguay and Argentina, 1995); his essay Androgynous Art (Prize from the Ministry of Culture of Uruguay, published in Uruguay, Argentina and Spain, 1998-2003); an anthology of several books of his poems, together with a miscellany of critical articles on his work: Performance: gender and transgender (Buenos Aires, 2000); and the books of poems Casino Atlántico (Montevideo, 2004) and Centralasia (Buenos Aires, 2005), The express between sleep and wakefulness (Montevideo, 2009), Background noise (Santiago de Chile, 2009), I was an ember (Montevideo, 2009) and Russian nights. Matter and memory (Montevideo, 2011).