Braulio Fernández Biggs is a writer and professor at the Literature Institute of the Universidad de los Andes (Chile). He has published some fifteen academic books, including translations of Shakespeare, Lewis, and Eliot. He is the author of the short story collections Corazón de buey [Ox heart] (1993) and El ciego y los tuertos [The blind man and the one-eyed men] (2015) and the verse collection Orfeo y Euridice [Orpheus and Eurydice] (2016).