A scholar and writer, Gustavo Pérez Firmat is the David Feinson Professor Emeritus of Humanities at Columbia University, where he taught Latin American literature. His imaginative writing has been published in The Paris Review, Ploughshares, The Southern Review, The Carolina Quarterly, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Baltimore Review, North American Review, North Carolina Literary Review, and other journals. He has also published books of literary and cultural criticism, including A Cuban in Mayberry, Life on the Hyphen and Tongue Ties; a memoir, Next Year in Cuba, as well as several poetry collections in Spanish and English, including Equivocaciones, Bilingual Blues and Scar Tissue. My Favorite Monster, his translation of selected poems by noted Spanish poet, Luis Alberto de Cuenca appeared in 2024. His personal website: www.gustavoperezfirmat.com. Thank you for considering my work, Gustavo
