Juan Pablo Plata Figueroa

Juan Pablo Plata (born 1982) is a Colombian writer, journalist and researcher.

Born in Bogota, he studied literature at Universidad de los Andes, but did graduate from Universidad Javeriana, in Bogotá.

He was anthologized in the book Umpalá (Sic Editores, 2006) and Inhabited heart. Recent stories about love in Colombia (Algaida. Grupo Anaya, 2010. Spain).[1] He published one of the first anthologies of Colombian short-stories in the 21st century, called Signals of Path, which featured 27 Colombian authors (Señales de ruta, Arango Editores, 2008 and 2012 ebook redition)[2][3][4]

He won two awards (website and interview with painter David Manzur, with the magazine La Movida Literaria) of journalism given by Andiarios (2005) and CPB prize in 2006 with the collective journalistic weblog Generation Invisible.

He was editor of La Movida Literaria [5] (A small literary magazine in Bogota, Colombia) which aroused a parody on blogs and a controversy between magazines El Malpensante and Arcadia. He writes book reviews and articles for magazines in United States like Level Magazine, Colombia, Mexico and Venezuela like Letralia. As a researcher he made a proposal for classification of electronic literature under a literary subgenre called Mortara, to name hybrid literary works that use previous existing and classified genres and sound, images, motion pictures, etc., either print or in hypertext.[6] He is a MFA student of the bilingual Creative Writing program at the University of Texas at El Paso. He was editor in chief of the bilingual Rio Grande Review.[7] In 2018 published Arqueo de los días (Inventary of days) (With Ibáñez Editores and Silver Editions, book companies)[8][9] a personal anthology of journalism, non fiction book, with interviews ( to Enrique Vila-Matas, Tryno Maldonado, Juan Villoro), chronicles and profiles in Spanish. He was editor of literary horror magazine Lease a plena noche at Colombia. He is a current contributor of magazine Corónica. [10]