Frank Báez

Frank Báez is a Dominican poet, editor, and writer, born in 1978 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. He has published six poetry books, a short story collection, and four nonfiction books. Two of his books, ''Last night I dreamt I was a DJ'' (2014) and ''The end of the world came to my neighborhood'' (2022) have been translated into English.

Frank’s collection of stories ''Págales tú a los psicoanalistas'' won the 2006 Santo Domingo Book Fair First Prize for short stories. His poetry collection ''Postales'' also won the National Poetry Prize Salomé Ureña in 2009.

Frank Báez studied Psychology at the Santo Domingo Institute of Technology (Intec).

With fellow poet Homero Pumarol, he founded a spoken word band called El Hombrecito, which has released three albums.

He previously co-directed the digital poetry magazine ''Ping Pong'', which published a generation of young poets and was characterized by translations and essays that addressed new poetic trends. From 2013 to 2020 he was chief editor of ''Revista Global'', editing almost forty issues. Also, as an editor, in 2022, he edited the trilingual poetry anthology: ''On/Off-Shore: Poets of the Caribbean and Caribbean Diaspora''. Provided by Wikipedia