Born in 1927 in Río Loa in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile, Ludwig Zeller immigrated to Canada in 1971. His immense oeuvre includes some fifty collections of poetry, collages collections, fiction and criticism. His literary has been published in the original Spanish and in translation in many languages, and his collages have been exhibited internationally. These vibrant translations of Ludwig Zeller's smaller pieces are by Griffin Award winning poet A.F. Moritz.