MIGUEL ÁNGEL ZAPATA (Piura, Peru) is a poet, essayist, and university professor (Hofstra University, New York). He graduated from the National University of San Marcos in Lima and received his PhD in Philosophy and Letters from Washington University (Saint Louis, United States). He has published books of poetry, essays, literary criticism, and translations of English poetry. Some of his most recent collections of poems include: A Handle to Open the Poem of a Dark Heart (Círculo de Poesía, 2025), The Vase Threatens to Speak (Lima, 2024), Cassandra's Iguana. Selected Poetry 1983-2021 (Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2021), and Clay Court. Poems in Prose (Bicoa: New York 2020; Lima: Summa, 2021), A Tree Crosses the City (Lima, 2019), A Tree Crossing the City, translated by Gwen Osterwald (New York Poetry Press, 2019), The Sky That Writes to Me (Mexico, 2002), among others. In November of this year (2025), Pre-Textos Publishing House of Spain will publish an anthology of her extensive poetic work: Escribo Caminando. Antología Poética 2024-1983. Her poetry has been translated into English, French, Italian, Greek, Portuguese, Arabic, and Russian. His most notable awards include the José María de Hostos Essay Award (2003), the Latin American Literature (Poetry) Award from the Latin American Writers Institute in New York (2011), the Enrique Anderson Imbert Award from the North American Academy of the Spanish Language (2023), of which he is a full member, and the José María Eguren Medal (Lima, Peru, 2025). He is the founding director of Códice- Revista de Poesía.