Manuel Adrián López was born in Morón, Cuba in 1969. He is a bilingual poet and writer. His work has been published in various literary journals in Spain, United States and Latin America. His published books are: Yo, el arquero aquel (Poetry, Editorial Velámenes, 2011), Room at the Top (Short Stories, Eriginal Books, 2013), Los poetas nunca pecan demasiado (Poetry, Editorial Betania, 2013. Awarded Gold Medal by Florida Book Awards in 2013), El barro se subleva (Short Stories, Ediciones Baquiana, 2014), Temporada para suicidios (Short Stories, Eriginal Books, 2015), and the chapbook, Muestrario de un vidente (Poesía. Proyecto Editorial La Chifurnia. Salvador, 2016). Fragmentos de un deceso/El revés en el espejo, libro en conjunto con el poeta ecuatoriano David Sánchez Santillán para la colección Dos Alas (El Ángel Editor, 2017), El arte de perder/The Art of Losing (Poesía Bilingüe, Eriginal Books, 2017) y El hombre incompleto (Poesía, Dos Orillas, 2017). His poetry has been included in the anthologies: La luna en verso (Ediciones El Torno Gráfico, 2013) and Todo Parecía. Poesía cubana contemporánea de temas Gay y lésbicos (Ediciones La Mirada, 2015), Voces de América Latina II (mediaisla, 2016) and No Resignación (Antología de Salamanca, 2016). He has participated in the Miami Book Fair International, XXXV Feria Internacional del Libro del Palacio de Minería in Mexico City, IV Festival Atlántico de Poesía de Canarias al Mundo in Gran Canaria, Spain, V Festival de Poesía de Lima in Perú, Noveno Encuentro Paralelo Cero in Quito, Ecuador, and Poetry of the Americas, a bilingual poetry reading at the New York Public Library, among other literary events.