Poeta y escritor nacido en Cuba en 1974. Se graduó de Lengua y Literatura Inglesa en el Instituto Superior Pedagógico de Pinar del Río. En 1997 se radica en Estados Unidos. Recibió el premio internacional de poesía Sant Jordi 2006 por Autorretrato en azul y el Paz de Poesía 2014, otorgado por The National Poetry Series, por Nueve monedas, publicado en inglés y español. Poemas, cuentos y artículos suyos han sido traducidos al inglés, alemán, turco, portugués, italiano y francés, y también han aparecido en varias antologías y revistas. Otros títulos suyos son: La seducción del Minotauro, El diablo en el cuerpo, Habitación a oscuras, Los bosques de Mortefontaine, Los nombres de la noche, El unicornio y otros poemas y Cuaderno del falso amor impuro.
Carlos Pintado is a Cuban American writer, playwright, and award-winning poet who immigrated to the United States in the early 1990s. His book Autorretrato en azul received the prestigious Sant Jordi International Prize for Poetry, and his book El azar y los tesoros was a finalist for Spain’s Adonais Prize in 2008. Nine Coins/Nueve monedas (Akashic Books) is his latest collection of poetry, winner of the 2015 Paz Prize for Poetry, presented by the National Poetry Series and The Center at Miami Dade College. This annual award—named in the spirit of the late Nobel Prize–winning poet, Octavio Paz—honors a previously unpublished book of poetry written originally in Spanish by an American resident.. Nine Coins/Nueve monedas is a palimpsest of love, fears, dreams, and the intimate landscapes where the author seeks refuge. These poems appear like small islands of salvation, covered with the brief splendor of the coins people sometimes grab hold of, taking the form of a very personal and often devastating map. Each poem is a song at the edge of an abyss; an illusory gold coin obtained as a revelation; a song of hope and understanding. The volume’s dreamlike geography prompts the reader to revisit the thread, the labyrinth, and the Minotaur’s legends. The night streets of South Beach, Alexandria, and many other cities, lit by the fading torches, seem to guide us in conversation with characters who are long dead.