Alejandro Zambra was born in Santiago de Chile in 1975. He is the author of two books of poems (Useless Bay, 1998, Moving, 2003), The Collection of Essays Not Read (2010), the storybook My Documents (2013) the "workbook" Facsimile (2014), and three novels, published by Editorial Anagrama simultaneously in Spain and Latin America and translated into more than ten languages: Bonsai (2006), The Private Life of Trees (2007), and Ways to return home (2011). Some of his short stories and articles have appeared in magazines such as Letras Libres, Chimera, Babelia, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Harper's, McSweeney's, Tin House, Vice, The Virginia Quarterly Review and Rattapallax (United States). His work also appears in several anthologies published in Chile, Argentina, Peru, Colombia, Mexico, Germany and the United States. Presented as part of Escribe Aquí / Write Here.