Luis Chaves

Luis Chaves (1969) is a Costa Rican poet.

Chaves' first collection of poems was "El Anónimo". In 1997 he won the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Poetry Award with his second book, "Los animales que imaginamos". "Historias Polaroid" was published in 2001 to critical and readership acclaim. During a sojourn in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Chaves published in Spain his fourth book, "Chan Marshall", which marked his rise as one of Latin America's leading young poetic voices. "Chan Marshall" won the III Fray Luis de León Poetry Prize and was published in Spain by the influential poetry publisher Visor. Chaves' latest book is "Asfalto. A Road Poem", in which the author experiments more clearly with prose poems and internal narrative.

Chaves was editor of Los Amigos de lo Ajeno, an alternative poetry magazine distributed mainly in Costa Rica and Argentina.