Mario Meléndez (Linares, Chile, 1971). He is the author of: Apuntes para una leyenda, Vuelo subterráneo, El circo de papel, La muerte tiene los días contados, Esperando a Perec and El mago de la soledad. Some of his work has been translated to various languages. For several years he lived in Mexico City, where he was the headed up the Poetas Latinoamericanos series in Laberinto ediciones and edited anthologies of Chilean and Latin American poetry. At the start of 2012 he moved to Italy. In 2013 he received the medal of the President of the Italian Republic, awarded by the International Foundation don Luigi di Liegro. During 2014-2016 he edited two collections of Latin American poets for Raffaelli editore, based in Rimini. His poems have appeared in prestigious anthologies in Italy, Spain, and Latin America, and translations of his poems have appeared Gulf Coast, Poetry Magazine, Tupelo Quarterly and other journals. Since 2018 he has been the general editor for the Vicente Huidobro Foundation and spearheaded their on-line journal of world poetry Revista Altazor.