Born in 1978 in Santo Domingo, Frank Báez has made a name for himself as one of the Dominican Republic’s most relevant poets and nonfiction writers. He has published six poetry books, a short story collection, and four nonfiction books. He is a founding member of El Hombrecito, the first Dominican Spoken Word band, which has three albums to its credit.
He co-directed the digital poetry magazine Ping Pong, which published an entire generation of young poets and was characterized by translations and essays that addressed new poetic trends. From 2013 to 2020, he was chief editor of Revista Global, editing almost forty issues. In 2022, he edited the trilingual poetry anthology On/Off-Shore: Poets of the Caribbean and Caribbean Diaspora. 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. In 2023, he was a recipient of the University of Texas Mellon Fellowship for High Impact Scholars. His work has appeared in numerous anthologies, and translations of his books of poetry have been published in Arabic, Dutch, German, and Bangla. Two of his books have been translated into English: Last Night I Dreamt I Was a DJ (2014) and The End of the World Came to My Neighborhood (2022).