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 Full Professor of Latin-American Literature, Visual Arts, 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 neobaroque aesthetics. In addition, Baler is the editor of and contributor to The Next Thing: Art in the Twenty-First Century (2013, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press), 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 San Paulo, Brazil (2013) and by Ediciones del Camino (2022). Baler is currently working on his next novel and a book of essays on the general interdisciplinary field of ethics and aesthetics titled Maxima Inmoralia: Art and Transgression. Baler is also an international research fellow at The Center for Fine Art Research at Birmingham City, University, U.K.