Roberto Cofresí Hopgood is a Puerto Rican (Boricua/Caribbean/Latine) writer who’s lived in Texas, Colorado, Mexico and New York City. He is a graduate of Rice University and among other things, he survived being adrift on a boat on the Gulf of California, being lost without water in Barrancas del Cobre, being robbed by a one-eyed man with a pen knife in NYC and being yelled at by Werner Herzog in Texas. He is the author of “Bellows: Fables from the Musical Underground.” More recently his stories (in English and español) have appeared in LatineLit, Smokelong Quarterly, The Write Launch, Enclave, Evento Horizonte, Drunk Monkeys, Claridad and more as well as in several anthologies. He has also written and performed music with various bands. He currently lives in Chapel Hill NC.