Robert Rincón (Valencia, 1985) is a poet and musician with a degree in Education and minors in Language and Literature. He completed a master’s in Latin American Literature. He is Editor in Chief of the journal Poesía of the Universidad de Carabobo. He has published two verse collections: Mercaderes [Merchants] (2010) and Emaús y el vientre de arena [Emmaus and the belly of sand] (2016). The latter was awarded the fifth Premio Nacional Universitario de Literatura. He is currently working toward a doctorate in Social Sciences with a minor in Cultural Studies at the Universidad de Carabobo.