Edmundo Bracho

Edmundo Bracho is a Venezuelan-born writer, journalist and media researcher.

He was Deputy Editor of Tal Cual daily journal, Editor of El Nacional newspaper's Sunday magazine and Editor of current affairs monthly magazine Veintiuno. In 2001 he became the first Lecturer of Literary Journalism at Rómulo Gallegos Center for Latin American Studies.

He graduated with a Bachelor's degree (Hons) in Communication Studies in 1992 at the Central University of Venezuela and holds a Master’s degree (Distinction) in International Journalism from Cardiff University.

Bracho has also written for or contributed to El País, O Globo, La Jornada, Clarín, El Universal, Letras Libres, Gatopardo (magazine), El Viejo Topo, Quimera, Revista de Poesía, Contrabando, Free Speech Radio, Ateneo FM, among other publications and media outlets, covering international politics and cultural issues.

He is author of El Oponente, a collection of conversations with 30 prominent writers that includes those with William Burroughs, Susan Sontag, Octavio Paz, Edward Said, Czeslaw Milosz, Mario Vargas Llosa and Doris Lessing (AlterLibris, 2000). His book María Lionza (Bigott, 2004) is an investigative journey into a South American syncretic religious cult.

His collection of poems include Hospitalario (1997), La puerta de Leónidas (2000) and Orilla Revuelta (2003). His poetry has been described as one of the most singular and extravagant of his generation.