Lane Carnes is the author of two books of bilingual poetry: The La Vida Existencial and Internas Voces and Ensimismamiento, a novella. He grew up in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He was inspired to write by his father, Nat Carnes, who worked as a journalist in Puerto Rico and is the author of several political-historical Latin American novels: Chile-New York: The Eleventh of September, San Juan, Trujillo: The Chief, and others.
