Originally from Buenos Aires, Argentina, and current resident of Los Angeles, California, PABLO BALER is a writer, art critic, and scholar. A graduate of Stanford University and U.C. Berkeley, Baler is Professor of Latin-American Literature and Creative Writing at California State University, Los Angeles. Pablo Baler is the author of the award winning novel Circa (Ed. Galerna, 1999), Chabrancán (Ediciones del Camino, 2020), and El lejano desoriente (Rialta, 2022). He is also the author of Latin American Neo Baroque: Senses of Distortion (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, original in Spanish by Ed. Corregidor, 2009), a highly-praised essay on neo-baroque aesthetics. In addition, Baler is the editor of and contributor to The Next Thing: Art in the Twenty-First Century (Bloomsbury, 2013), a collection of essays written by a broad range of authors about the aesthetic sensibility that will define our times. Baler’s collection of short stories, La burocracia mandarina, was published by Lumme Editor in Sao Paulo, Brazil (2013) and by Ediciones del Camino, 2022. Gilroy’s Gloryhole is Baler’s debut novel in English. Translations of his micro-fictions and short stories have appeared in Ninth Letter, X-Ray, Latin American Literature Today, and Litro Magazine.