Víctor Rodríguez Núñez (Havana, Cuba, 1955) is a poet, journalist, literary critic, translator, and scholar. He has published thirteen books of poetry, most of them prize-winning, the most recent being, desde un granero rojo (Alfons el Magnànim Prize, Spain, 2013). His selected poems has come out in seven Spanish-speaking countries, and has been translated into Macedonian, English, French, Italian, Serbian, and Swedish. He has been invited to read his poems in more than thirty countries, and was poet-in-residence in Paris (2012) and Shanghai (2013). Rodríguez Núñez was the editor of El Caimán Barbudo, one of Cuba’s leading cultural magazines. He has compiled three anthologies that define his poetic generation and published various critical editions and essays on Spanish American poets. Among his translations into Spanish are books by Mark Strand and John Kinsella. He divides his time between Gambier, Ohio, where he is Professor of Spanish at Kenyon College, and Havana, Cuba.