Mauricio Montiel Figueiras
is a writer of prose fiction and essays, as well as a poet, translator,
editor, and film and literary critic. He is the author of fifteen books
in different genres. His work has been published in magazines and
newspapers in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Italy, Peru,
Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States. He has been Resident
Writer for the Cheltenham Festival of Literature in England (2003) and
The Bellagio Study and Conference Center in Italy (2008). In 2012 he was
appointed Resident Writer for the prestigious Hawthornden Retreat for
Writers in Scotland. In 2020 he was selected artist in residence for the
Saari Residence in Finland. Since 1995 he lives and works in Mexico
City.
