Alberto Ruy-Sánchez Lacy is a Mexican Writer and Editor born in Mexico City on 7 December 1951. He is author of Fiction, Non-Fiction and Poetry. Since 1988 he has been the Chief Editor and founding Publisher of Latin America's leading Arts Magazine: Artes de Mexico. He has been Visiting Professor to several universities, including Stanford, Middlebury and La Sorbonne, and is invited to give lectures in Europe, Africa, Asia and all the American Continent. His work has been praised by Octavio Paz, Juan Rulfo, Severo Sarduy, Alberto Manguel, Claude Michel Cluny and awarded by several international institutions .