Edgar Paiewonsky-Conde was born in Samaná, Dominican Republic. At the turn of the 20th century, four Jewish brothers from Lithuania crossed the Atlantic and settled in Santa Bárbara de Samaná, including his 14-year old paternal grandfather. A few years before, on the opposite side of the northern coast of the Republic, his mother’s grandfather was the host of José Martí at the time he wrote El Manifiesto de Montecristi, before joining Cuba’s last war of independence. Paiewonsky-Conde obtained his PhD in Hispanic literature at New York University with a thesis on the dialectics of desire in the first volume of Don Quijote. He has published articles of lasting influence on classic authors of peninsular literature (el Arcipreste de Hita, Cervantes, Góngora) and key figures of contemporay Latin American narrative (Juan Bosch, Rulfo, García Márquez, Fuentes), in journals such as Anales Cervantinos, Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos, Bulletin Hispanique and Ideologies and Literature. His poetry has appeared in literary magazines in the United States, Latin America and Spain, and in anthologies in both languages. Edgar lives in Central New York, where he has taught Latin American literature and Cervantes at Hobart & William Smith Colleges. In the last few years, he has began to circulate his experimental minimalist poetry, in readings and projections, and through both physical and electronic means.