Ednodio José Quintero Montilla was born in Las Mesitas, Trujillo, Venezuela on March 11, 1947. He moved to Merida in 1965 to study ForestRy Engineering. He has been a professor at the National School of Audiovisual Arts of the University of Los Andes, and was promoter of various cultural projects in Mérida such as the solar magazine and publishing house, the TAL literary workshop and the National Biennial of Literature "Mariano Picón Salas".

He published in 1974 his first book of short stories, Death Travels to Horseback, followed him Back with My Dogs, from 1975 and The Daily Aggressor, from 1978. After a personal crisis, she did not republish the 1988 short stories The Line of Life, and her first novel The Jaguar Dance, from 1991. She has also written short novels such as 1991's The Dancer of Kachgar; The King of Rats, 1994, and The Sky of Ixtab, 1995 and the 1993 story books Goat's Head and Other Stories, The Combat, published in 1995, and The Other's Heart, in 2000, and the novel Physical Lesson, followed by Mariana and the Comanches, from 2004; Confessions of a Dead Dog, 2006; The Son of Genghis Khan, 2013 and Love Colder Than Death, 2017.
He has also published the essays: De narrativa y narradores (1996) and Visiones de un narrator (1997) and two film scripts: Rosa de los vientos (1975), Cubagua (1987).