Luis Mora-Ballesteros is a researcher and professor of Spanish and Latin American Literature at the City University of New York. He received his doctorate in Literature from Simón Bolívar University (Caracas) and his masters in Latin American and Caribbean Literature from the University of the Andes (Mérida). He also co-authored the Diccionario básico escolar Saber (2016) and served as the associate editor of the literary studies journal Contexto. He is the author of the novels Díptico de la frontera (2020) and La sombra del comandante (2021).