Marcelo Guajardo Thomas has published the following poetry books: Theseus in the Sea Towards Cartagena and Epilogue of the Adventure, The Pain of the Swarms, A Propitious Moment for Exile, Blue Door on the Wall of Adobe, and The Coelacanths and Other Extraordinary Events. He has also published youth novels, including, The Magic Bicycle of Sergio Krumm, and Rapaces. In 2017 he obtained the Pablo Neruda Prize for Young Poetry. He lives in Santiago de Chile, and each day when he looks out his window towards the Andes Mountains, he is reminded that everything will be fine, in spite of uncertainty.