Carlos Soto Román is a Chilean pharmacist, a poet, and a translator. He holds a Master of Bioethics from the University of Pennsylvania. He has published in Chile: La Marcha de los Quiltros (1999), Haikú Minero (2007), and Cambio y Fuera (2009); and in the States: Philadelphia’s Notebooks (Otoliths, 2011), Chile Project: [Re-Classified] (Gauss PDF, 2013), and Alternative Set of Procedures (Corollary Press, 2014). As a translator he has published Do or DIY: Autoedición, Apropiación, Recontextualización y Plagio (Das Kapital, 2013).
His work can be found in the following websites, magazines and journals: Octopus, Otoliths, Fox Chase Review, Flying Fish, Revista Laboratorio, eL Paper, Caesura, Dear Navigator, Apiary, Eleven Eleven, Poetic Labor Project Blog, Where Eagles Dare, PEN American Center Blog, Gaceta de Estudios Latinoamericanos, Los Desconocidos de Siempre, Capitalism Nature Socialism, P-Queue, Summer Stock, Revista Grifo, COYDUP, Newport Review, Crux Desperationis, Letras en Línea, Hinchas de Poesía, Clock, The American Poetry Review, Mandorla, Jacket2, and Aufgabe, among others.
In addition to being a MacDowell Fellow, he is a recipient of two grants from the Chilean Council for Culture and the Arts for projects of poetic creation and translation, and is the curator of the cooperative anthology of U.S. poetry Elective Affinities.
