Giuseppe Bartoli was born in Charlottesville, Virginia. An avid world-traveler, he has lived in Peru, Chile, Italy, France, Scotland, Spain, Argentina, and England. His first collection of poems, Excerpts of Life, was published in 2003. That same year, Giuseppe relocated to Fife to study at the University of St Andrews. Inspired by the advice of Douglas Dunn and WeiEn Chen, he began working on Las Veinticinco ( Horas), which was published in Spanish by Editora Mesa Redonda in 2009. He is currently working on a Creative Writing PhD. at Kingston University, based on the life of and work of the Uruguayan poet Delmira Agustini. Some of his most recent poems have appeared in Poetry Scotland and Lung Jazz: Young British Poets for Oxfam. Ayacucho, his first novel, which deals with the Peruvian Internal Conflict, might be hitting the London bookshops in the next year.