(Valera, Venezuela, 1967) is a novelist, short story writer and biographer. He studied literature in Caracas and Salamanca. He was finalist in the Rómulo Gallegos International Novel Prize with El niño malo cuenta hasta cien y se retira [The Bad Boy Counts to a Hundred and Retires] (2004); he has subsequently published Nochebosque [Nightwood] (2011) and Gemelas [Twins] (2013). He has established his short story writing in Leerse los gatos [Read the Cats] (1997), Spanish Embassy in Venezuela Prize; Homero haciendo "zapping" [Homer Channel Surfs] (2003), Ramos Sucre Biennial Prize; Los sordos trilingües [The Trilingual Deaf] (2011) and La manzana de Nietzsche [Nietzsche's Apples] (2015). He is the author of the biographies Alejandro Magno, el vivo anejo de conocer [Alexander the Great, the living desire to know] (2004), Albert Einstein, cartas probables para Hann [Albert Einstein, probable letters to Hann] (2004), La reina de los cuatro nombres: Olimpia, madre de Alejandro Magno [The Queen of Four Names: Olympia, Mother of Alexander the Great] (2005) and Miranda, el nómada sentimental [Miranda, the Sentimental Nomad] (2006). He has also worked with the newspaper El Nacional of Caracas, Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos, Revista de Occidente and the website Zenda Libros.