Luis Armenta Malpica (Mexico City, 1961) lives in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, since 1974. He was a member of the National Council for Culture and the Arts of the state of Jalisco and is director of Mantis Publishing House. He won the Aguascalientes Poetry Prize (1996), the Ramon Lopez Velarde National Poetry Prize (1999), the Efrain Huerta National Poetry Prize (1999), the Jalisco Award of Letters (2008), the Jose Emilio Pacheco National Poetry Prize (2011) and the Poetry Prize in the Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz International Competition (2013), among many other recognitions; for his editorial...