Mexican-born poet and novelist Rogelio Guedea is the award-winning author of more than 50 books. His poetry collection Kora was awarded the prestigious Spanish Premio Adonáis de Poesía in 2008, and in 2013 his novel, El crimen de Los Tepames (Mondadori), was one of the top five best-selling novels in Mexico. His most recent poetry collections, with English translations by Roger Hickin, are Si no te hubieras ido / If only you hadn’t gone (2014) and Punctuation (2018) and O me voy a te vas/One of us must go (Otago University Press, 2022). He was the coordinator of the University of Otago Spanish Programme and Associate Professor of Spanish from 2008–2016. Rogelio is currently based in Wellington and is the director of The New Zealand Hispanic Press.

Verb Readers & Writers Festival 2022 appearance:
Toi Te Kupu, Wednesday 2 November, Rongomaraeroa · Te Marae · Level 4, Te Papa (FREE event)