Alberto Fuguet (Chile, IWP 1994, Visitor 2017) is a fiction writer, film critic, and director. Of his eight novels in Spanish, the best-seller Mala Onda (1991) appeared in English as Bad Vibes; The Movies of My Life was published in the US in 2003; the story collection Shorts appeared in 2005. [Road Story], a graphic novel came out in 2007. Fuguet has directed, written, or co-written five films. He is a Writer-in-Residence and teaches at Universidad Diego Portales in Santiago de Chile.