Maurizio Medo was born in 1965. He has directed projects such as the creation space Transtierros, for a decade, and the critical dissemination project País Imaginario: Escrituras y transtextos, a study in three volumes. He has also published various books of poetry such as Manicomio (first edition, Santiago de Chile, La calabaza del diablo, 2005; second edition: Lima, Editorial Zignos, 2007; third edition, Monterrey, La regia cartonera, 2013; fourth edition, Guadalajara, Mantis, 2012; fourth edition, Madrid, Varasek. Buccaneers collection, 2015); Cuando el destino dejó de ser víspera (poesía reunida 2005-2015) (Caceres, Ediciones Liliputienses, 2016); Y un tren lento apareció por la curva (Madrid, Ay del seis, 2016) and Las interferencias (Madrid, Ay del seis, 2019). His work has appeared in anthologies such as Pulir Huesos. 23 Latin American poets, 1950-1965 (Madrid, Círculo de Lectores, Galaxia Gutenberg, 2007) edited by Eduardo Milan; Festivas formas. Poesía peruana contemporánea (University of Antioquia Press, Medellin, 2009), edited by Eduardo Espina; Intersecciones. Doce poetas peruanos (Conaculta: Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes. Oaxaca, 2009) edited by Ernesto Lumbreras; Světová poezietento chléb přežvykovat, psacími písmeny (fra.cz, Prague, 2012), edited by Petr Zavadil; Spanische und hispanoamerikanische Lyrik Bd. 4: Von Rosa Chacel bis zur Gegenwart (“Spanish and Hispano-American Poetry Vol. 4: From Rosa Chacel to the present” - CH Beck Foundation, Berlin, 2022) edited by Susanne Lange and Petra Strien. He has also published Backstage: 18 entrevistas (y algunas notas) alrededor de la poesía contemporánea (Caceres, Liliputienses ,2017). He currently runs El Laboratorio.