Narrator, poet, research and “Repentista”.

Member of the Association of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC) and of the Ibero American Center of Décima and Improvised Verse.

He has participated as presenter and improviser in numerous festivals and congresses of oral literature in Cuba and abroad. He imparted courses, conferences and seminars about these topics in different universities and educational and cultural institutions.

Currently, he is director of the Experimental School of Trova Alpujarra, Spain, the Experimental Department of Improvised Poetry at the Superior Institute of Art and assistant manager of Research and Teaching of the Ibero-American Center of Decima and Improvised Verse.

As writer, he has published numerous stories, articles and poems in anthologies and Cuban magazines and foreign magazines as well as several books, among those that are: Huitzel and Quetzal (1992); Robinson Crusoe vuelve a salvarse (Robinson Crusoe survives again) (Décima, publishing company San Lope, 1994); Theory of Improvisation, First pages for the study of improvisation(2000); Maldita danza (Damned dance), (Novel, Alba Prize, Spain, 2002).

In the XV Book Fair was presented his work “En un Lugar de la Mancha”, version in verses of “El Quijote” for children and adolescents.

He received the Distinction for the National Culture and the Alejo Carpentier Medal, 2001.

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