Frank Báez, born in the Dominican Republic in 1978, has published six books of poetry, a short story collection, and three nonfiction books. In 2006, he received the Short Story Prize of the Santo Domingo International Book Fair for Págales tú a los Psicoanalistas, and in 2009, he won the Salomé Ureña National Poetry Prize for Postales. In 2017 he was selected by the Hay Festival as a member of Bogotá39, the list of the best Latin American writers under forty years of age. He is one of the founders of the spoken word band, El Hombrecito. His work has appeared in numerous anthologies, and translations of his books of poetry have been published in Arabic, Dutch, German, Bangla, and English. He is currently based in the USA as the Mellon High Impact Scholars at University of Texas Austin.
弗蘭克 · 巴埃茲於1978年出生在多米尼加共和國。他已出版了六本詩集、一部短篇小說集和三本非虛構類書籍。2006年，他的小說集《Págales tú a los Psicoanalistas》獲得了聖多明各國際書展短篇小說獎，2009年，他的詩集《Postales》贏得了薩洛梅 · 烏雷尼亞國家詩歌獎。2017年，巴埃茲獲選為海伊文學節「波哥大39」成員，並成為40歲以下最優秀的拉丁美洲作家之一。他是口語文學樂隊 El Hombrecito 的創始人之一。他的作品收錄於許多選集。他的詩已翻譯成阿拉伯語、荷蘭語、德語、孟加拉語和英語出版。他目前在美國德克薩斯大學奧斯汀分校擔任梅隆影響力學者。