Mexican poet Elías Carlo was born in Monterrey in 1975. His first poetry collection, Para terminar la ausencia, was published in 2003 by Universidad Juárez Autónoma de Tabasco. His work has appeared in literary journals and was selected for Diez y nota: Selecciónjuvenil, an anthology of young poets from Jalisco published in 2010. He lives in Guadalajara, Mexico.