Vicente Luis Mora is a professor at the University of Malaga, author and literary critic. He was director of the Master’s program in Creative Writing at the International University of La Rioja (UNIR). He has also been a visiting professor at Brown University (USA) and Stockholm University (Sweden). His research interests include 20th and 21st century Spanish literature (narrative and poetic), literary creation and the effects of technology on the writing process. He has published seven collections of verse poems and four novels (including Centroeuropa, winner of the Pen Translates 2022 prize). He has published essays and academic works such as El lectoespectador (2012), Pangea (2006), as well as the award-winning essays La huida de la imaginación (2019) and El sujeto boscoso (2016). Some of his novels, poems and short stories have been translated into English, French, German, Greek and Polish.