His childhood was spent in the courtyards of Sahagún in Córdoba, Colombia, where he was born, and Montería. It terms of awards, he has won the 1992 Simón Bolívar National Journalism Award; the 2003 Álvaro Cepeda Samudio Journalism Award; and the Colprensa National Journalism Prize for his interview with García Márquez. He is the author of poetry books such as Conjuros del navegante (1988), Con el perdón de los pájaros (1996), He venido a ver las nubes (2008), and several works of collected texts, among them: Todas las formas del mundo (2010) and La tribu de los deseos (2017). He is also the author of La ciudad amurallada (Crónicas de Cartagena de Indias, 2002) and of the story collections Alejandro vino a salvar los peces (2002 Comfamiliar del Atlántico Prize for Children’s Stories), published by Panamericana, in 2003; La iguana tiene sed (2013) and the young adult novel El soñador de tesoros (2019), published by Editorial Norma. Some of his poems have been translated into English, Arabic, Portuguese, German and Chinese, and have appeared in anthologies in Colombia, Portugal, Mexico, Turkey and elsewhere. Shortlisted for the 2020 Biblioteca de Narrativa Colombiana Prize. He is the author of the biography Alejandro Obregón: delirio de luz y sombra (Planeta, 2020), of the children’s novel Michelín no es una gata cualquiera (Panamericana, 2021) and of the biography of the musician Lucho Bermúdez: el genio prende la vela (Intermedio Editores, 2021). He has been contributing to the cultural section of the Cartagena newspaper El Universal since 1984.