Maikel Ramírez

Maikel Ramírez (Maracay, Venezuela, 1976) is a university professor, writer, and researcher. He holds a master’s degree in Latin American literature and is editor and director of the academic journal Perfiles. In 2023, he was among the winners of LALT’s first annual book review contest. He has taught English language at the Litoral campus of the Universidad Simón Bolívar and is currently an educator at the Universidad Pedagógica Experimental Libertador (UPEL) in Maracay, where he teaches Anglophone Literature, Anglophone Culture, and Literary Discourse Analysis in English. He is a regular contributor to the online journal Letralia. His flash fiction has been selected by critic and writer Violeta Rojo for publication in Papel Literario, the literary supplement of El Nacional, and has also appeared in the anthology Los moradores, compiled by critic and writer Manuel Cabesa, and in the journals En sentido figurado (Mexico) and Plesiosaurio (Peru), edited by writer Rony Vásquez Guevara. In 2014, he took part in the Encuentro de Microficción at the Feria Internacional del Libro de la Universidad de Carabobo, organized by critic and writer Geraudí González. He won third place in the Premio de Cuento para Jóvenes Autores Policlínica Metropolitana (2013) for his short story “Apocalipsis a la carte.” In 2020, he published the book Los postshakespereanos: gravitaciones del canon literario del futuro y otros mundos. In 2021, he published the book of short stories Una extraña habitación en Saturno & otros planetas infames.