Sergio Andricaín was born in Havana, Cuba. He is a journalist, literary scholar, publisher, and writer. He studied sociology at the University of Havana and in Costa Rica. During the 1990s, he was an editor of the UNESCO publications Colección biblioteca del promotor de lectura, and Niños y niñas del maíz. As a writer, he has worked for several newspapers and magazines in Cuba, Costa Rica, Colombia, Spain, and the United States. With Antonio Orlando Rodríguez, he created Fundación Cuatrogatos, a nonprofit that promotes Spanish-language reading, cultural, and educational projects in Miami, Florida, where he currently resides
