Adalber Salas Hernández is a Venezuelan poet, essayist and translator. He is the author of several books of poems, most recently Salvoconducto (2015, winner of the XXXVI Arcipreste de Hita Prize), Río en blanco (2016), and mínimos (2016). He has published translations of Marguerite Duras, Antonin Artaud, Charles Wright, and Mário de Andrade, among others. He is currently working on his PhD degree in Spanish and Portuguese Language and Literature at New York University.