Rito Ramón Aroche (Havana, 1961) is the author of numerous poetry collections, among them Material Entrañable (1994), Puerta Siguiente (1996), Cuasi – vol. II (l998), Cuasi – vol. I (2002), El libro de los colegios reales (2005), Del rio que durando se destruye (2005), Andamios (2007), Historias que confunden (2008), Las fundaciones (2011), Una vida magenta (2014), La estación
del año (2018), Libro de imaginar (2019), and El cielo como estaño (2022). Límites de Alcanía
appeared in a Dutch edition from Bokeh in 2016 (Leiden). Several of his books are currently in
the editing and production stages, among them Libro de las profesiones (stories), the first part
of a trilogy. English translations of his poetry have appeared in Seedings, El Nieuwe Acá,
Americas Quarterly, and Dispatches. A bilingual fine art broadside of Aroche’s.