Pablo A. Castro (Chile, 1974) is a political scientist and writer whose works have been published in magazines, newspapers, fanzines, and anthologies in Chile, Argentina, Spain, France, and the United States. His stories have won first prize in national and international science fiction competitions; "Reflections" was a best foreign story nominee for France’s Gran Prix de L’imaginaire. Castro, a defense and strategic affairs advisor in Chile’s Foreign Relations office, is currently at work on his first novel.