Peruvian writer, critic and journalist. He has co-edited the literature magazine El Hablador for a decade and currently lives in Philadelphia, where he is a doctoral candidate in Hispanic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. In 2008 he published his first novel, The line in the middle of the sky. His second novel, Austin, Texas 1979, published in May 2014, was well received by critics and readers. This is its second edition.