João Luís Barreto Guimarães was born in Porto, Portugal in 1967, where he trained in medicine. He is a poet and translator (as well as a reconstructive surgeon). He teaches poetry to ICBAS Medical Students, at University of Porto. As a writer, he is the author of eleven poetry books since 1989, collected twice, including his first seven books in Collected Poetry (2011); the subsequent You Are Here (2013), published also in Italy; Mediterranean (2016) chosen as National Award António Ramos Rosa and published in Spain, France, Poland, Egypt, Greece, Serbia, and Italy where it was finalist to Camaiori International Prize 2018; Nomad (2018) chosen as Bertrand Poetry Book of the Year 2018 and recipient of the Armando da Silva Carvalho Literary Prize, also published in Spain, Czechia, Egypt and Italy where it was also finalist to the Camaiori International Prize 2019; the anthology Time Advances by Syllables (2019), published also in Croatia, Macedonia and Brazil; and Movement (2020), recipient of the Grand Prix of Literature DST, also published in Macedonia. Mediterranean, translated to English by Calvin Olsen, won the Willow Run Poetry Book Award 2020.
