Pedro Arturo Estrada (Medellín, Colombia, 1956) has published the verse collections Poemas en blanco y negro (Editorial Universidad de Antioquia, 1994), Fatum (Colección Autores Antioqueños, 2000), Oscura edad y otros poemas (Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 2006), Suma del tiempo (Universidad Externado de Colombia, 2009), Des/historias (2012), Poemas de Otra/parte (2012), Locuas Solus (Sílaba editors, 2013), Blanco y negro with a new selection of texts (New York, 2014), and Monodia (New York, 2015).  He has won many literary prizes, including the Ciro Mendía National Prize in 2004, the Sueños de Luciano Pulgar Prize in 2007, the Medellín City Grant for Creative Writing in 2012, and the Casa Silva Prize in 2013.  He has also participated in numerous literary festivals and poetry events in Colombia and the United States.  His work has appeared in national and international anthologies and has been partially translated into several languages, including English, Romanian, Portuguese, and French.