Born in Arica, Chile 1982, and aged nineteen he moved to Santiago. In 2007 he won the Roberto Bolaño Award for Literary Creation with an unpublished novel. In 2011 he published the short story collection Hermano ciervo (Editorial Los Libros Que Leo, 2011; Fiordo Editorial, 2012; Marbot Ediciones, 2012; Sudaquia Editores, 2013; and Laurel Editores, 2014 and 2016), which won the Santiago Municipal Literature Prize. Some of the stories from this book have been translated into English and have appeared in magazines such as New York’s Tweed's, Berlin’s Sand, and the Tel Aviv The Short Story Project, as well as in the Traviesa anthology Childless Parents.