Iván Pérez Zayas has a BA in film and an MA in English literature, both from the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras campus. He has worked as a journalist, a college professor, and in 2015, he co-edited Un nuevo pulmón: Antología del porvenir, a collection of short stories, non-fiction, and poetry by young Puerto Rican writers published by Secta de los perros. He is currently a graduate student in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Northwestern University, and is writing a dissertation on Latin American graphic novels. His first book of poetry, titled Para restarse, will be published by Editorial Disonante this summer.