Roger Santiváñez

Roger Santiváñez (b. Piura, Peru 1956) has been part of the poetic movements La Sagrada Familia (1977) and Hora Zero (1981), and a founding member of the state of avant-garde poetic revolt called Movimiento Kloaka (1982-1986). In 2001 he moved to the United States, where he obtained a PhD in Latin American Poetry from Temple University in Philadelphia. Currently, he lives in the US and is entirely devoted to poetry.