Carlos Soto-Román is a poet, translator, and pharmacist. He holds an M.A. in Bioethics from the University of Pennsylvania and studied at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics in Naropa. While living in the United States for five years, he was a member of the New Philadelphia Poets Collective and obtained an artist's residency at the MacDowell Colony. He has participated in numerous readings, symposia, talks and festivals in Chile, the U.S. and Europe. He recently taught a course in Stetson University's MFA of the Americas and he actively collaborates in various visual and musical poetry projects, including the bands "Radio Magallanes" and "Sonora Guantánamo."