Valentino Gianuzzi is from Lima, where he was born in 1976. He graduated in Hispanic Literature from the Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru and has worked as a journalist, translator and assistant editor. He has edited the complete fiction of Peruvian writer Jose Diez-Canseco, and is currently translating selected works of F. Scott Fitzgerald. For Shearsman Books he has co-translated the complete poetry of Cesar Vallejo. He is co-editor of the project El Archivo Vallejo. He now teaches at the University of Manchester, after completing a PhD at the University of London.